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Stacia Stark
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May 3 - May 10, 2025
“I’m getting tired of it, Prisca. Tired of you taking any chance to push me away.”
“As soon as I have that amulet, I will come for you. I promise.” She took a deep breath. “I’m holding you to that promise.” “I told you, wildcat. I’ll always find you.”
well... better start preparing myself for that moment... cause everything will go wrong and I will start hating the fact they are apart
The next attack came a few hours later. I received a long, shallow cut down my forearm. Lorian took it very personally. By the time he’d finished with Regner’s guard, his face had been unrecognizable.
“I love you, Pris, but if he’d manipulated you that way, you would have vowed revenge. You’ve taken his choice away. He wouldn’t do that to you.”
“Did some part of you decide to send him away because you think it will be easier that way? Because you’ve fallen in love with him, and you don’t think you can be together? Because you’re trying to protect your heart from any further damage?”
“You don’t bring out the worst in me,” he said.
“Something in me died the night I lost my parents. And then I met you. You brought me back to life, Prisca.”
“For not saving him. I know you loved him.” I stared at him. Gods, I didn’t want him to feel guilty for what had just happened. I’d seen how hard he’d tried to save Thol. “You think I … loved him?” “Not the way you will love me,” he said, and my heart skipped a beat. Lorian arched his brow in that arrogant way I secretly adored. “But you still loved him. And I failed you.”
“You’re a heartless bastard.” Demos cut her a hard look. “Take this as a lesson. You will train, Asinia. Until your hands are callused and you move without thinking. Because you came close to dying yourself today. Don’t think I didn’t see it.” His gaze swept the room, and I could see the leader he’d been before Regner had imprisoned him. “There is no room for emotion in a fight.” His amber eyes met mine. “If you allow your emotions to overtake your logic, you are dead. Thol didn’t have to die today. And that’s all the more tragic. But Lorian didn’t kill him. Prisca didn’t kill him. He threw
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“We’re going to find it, wildcat.” Lorian was watching me. I attempted a smile. “How do you know?” “Because I’m not leaving this place until you have it.”
“Thank you, Lorian. For everything.” “You never have to thank me, Prisca.” “At some point, when all of this is done, we need to talk.”
“I once told you that until you faced up to the reality of your life, you would continue to be a victim to it. And my reality is this—I’m in love with you.”
Just … be gentle with Asinia.” His mouth firmed. “The last thing that woman needs is coddling.”
An arm came around my throat. Terror exploded through my stomach, and I clawed at the arm, head spinning. A trap. We hadn’t killed all the iron guards. Lorian sucked in an audible breath. It was as if he’d been gut punched. “Cavis …” The arm tightened. “Lorian, I don’t know what’s happening.”