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For the first time, I wonder what kind of a lover Kaelis would be. Not just in bed; I know that now, and the answer is: very, very good. But as a partner. As someone to come home to at the end of a day. As someone to whisper tenderness to across a pillow. To hold me when the world becomes too much…
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.”
“No, I won’t kill you yet.” My fingers uncurl, one by one. I release him, even though I don’t know why. I ease away. “If not now, then when?” A slight smirk tugs on his lips. I hate how much I love it. “When I’m done with you.” I turn on my heel, beginning to walk away. “You’ll never be done with me,” Kaelis says with all the arrogance in the world. “I will haunt you from this world into the next.”
“You…” Only Majors can use other Majors’ cards without the blessing of the Hierophant. Which means Ravin is a Major. But not just any Major…the one who I’d always assumed was left behind at court. Hidden away. No, King Oricalis hid him in plain sight. I whisper, “You’re Death.”
He needs to know my true name to kill me, I realize. It must be a rule of the Death card. Guard your name at all costs, Mother whispers from beyond the grave. Protecting me to this day.
