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“My apologies for not napping with you. I know skin-to-skin contact is very important for babes and their mothers.”
“Oh, love.” He chuckles. “Even if a man even hardly touches you, it’ll be the last thing he does in this life. I told you not to make me into a better man than I am. For you, Elowen, I’ll become the worst version of myself.”
“I’m not yours, Cayden. I can’t be yours.”
“Why do you believe I would let anything keep me from you? I’ve searched for you since I was a boy, when the whole world thought you were dead, when it seemed hopeless—I searched for you.”
“We’ve become deeper than power. You’ve driven me to madness. You haunt me while I sleep and you’re there when I wake. Your presence is agonizing and yet I’ll beg for the pain if it means I can have a moment with you.”
“Your fire captivates me.”
“I want to bury my head between your legs before his corpse gets cold. Maybe his soul will linger to watch how I take care of my woman.”
“I think I’m the only man who can handle whatever you throw at him and happily take it.”
“Get on your knees like a good girl and open your mouth.”
“I didn’t know I had a soul until you stole it from me,”
“Gods, how depraved are you two?”
“All we did was argue.” “That’s foreplay for us.” Cayden leans down to whisper it, and I pinch his arm.
“I personally find it admirable to be wanted in a kingdom as a thief, murderer, and princess.”
“Don’t retreat into your mind unless you’re taking me there with you.”
“The only time a person can truly be brave is when they remain standing as fear tries to cut them down.”
“You are a wildfire I have no intention of smothering, and I knew we would end up here from the second we struck the deal.
“I find it hard to imagine a reality where you could be unwanted.”
“There’s a chance we’ll be recognized tomorrow. If that happens, and we get separated, I need you to promise to leave me. Flee the castle and win this war. I’ll be a bigger target than you.”
“I don’t take orders from you, princess, and I will not offer you lies under the guise of comfort.”
“Please,” I croak.
“I will find a way to defy death itself to keep you here...
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“I’ll never leave you behind. It’s you and me until the end—whatever end that may be. If you’re to die with a blade in your hand, then I’m to die by your side with a sword in mine.”
“Then I’d tell you to wait a few hours and I’ll help.”
“You are the most exquisite creature I’ve ever met.”
“Worrying about you has become second nature.” I squeeze his bicep as we continue walking. “I’ll make sure you get what you want, no matter how bloody or godless.”
Power is chaos if you don’t know how to wield it.”
“You speak as if you’re a servant to power.”
“Power kneels to me, love.” His dark chuckle dances along my neck. “You wish to reduce this place to ash or rip it apart stone by stone...
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“I wish to show the world the claws I grew when they clipped my wings.”
With the flames at my back, I turn to find Cayden staring at me with parted lips…looking at me as if he’s seen a goddess.
“You have to keep going. Never let the flames that make you who you are burn out. You have your dragons, but all of this is empty for me without you.”
“I’m fighting with you or I’m fleeing with you, but I’m not leaving you.”
“Is she laughing?” Cayden asks. “Make another pass at her again, and the last thing you’ll see is a knife flying straight between your eyes. You should know I adore her violent streak and don’t mind cleaning up her messes.”
“You’ve ruined me in this life, the next, and any that follow.”
“I’m irrevocably lost in you, and it’s the only place I want to be. I’ll hurt anyone for you, including myself.”
“I want you, the man who faced the impossible and never gave up on me.”
“Take your throne, princess.” I try to move back to ride him, but he halts me with a hand on my hips. “Sit on my face.”
