It isn’t until he pulls away that I realize my fingers have wrapped themselves around his throat, the pads digging in lightly. Kaelis tilts his head to the side, amusement alight in his eyes. “Do it.” I could. He’d let me. There’s a madness to that glint. “I’m a relic of a bygone era,” he continues. “A cursed man with no future who shouldn’t have existed in the first place. If anyone will be my downfall, it’s you.”
