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I felt badly for Dawn then, how her childhood must have been being raised by this woman who only seemed proud when you showed her how well you would kill or disarm someone.
She just called me hopeless like it was nothing and yet, I still wanted to please her. I looked up to her, in a way. She didn’t treat me like a delicate, breakable flower. Like my parents did.
Abomination? Wow. They must really have done it. Dawn married an Ethereum lord.
His breath hitched, and his eyes fell to my lips. “I told you not to use your power on me,” he growled. I grinned. “I wasn’t.” He released my hand and a slight flush crept up his cheeks.
I finally understood how Dawn might have truly fallen in love with her own Ethereum lord.
Seduction was shaping up to be a bad idea. I was too inexperienced to pull off something like this.
No wonder he didn’t trust anyone. No wonder I’d become so valuable to him. The truth witch. Everyone was trying to take advantage of him, steal from him, plot against him, and why? Because he was rich?
I’m not a killer, Stryker. I’m just a bookworm with a weak heart.”
It felt like he’d pierced my chest with an ice pick. My gift was what was valuable to him. Not me, but my gift and what I could do for him. I’d started to truly care for this man, but all he saw when he looked at me was a means to an end. That more than stung, it cut.
No, they were not the same, not in looks or personality, but the feelings they both managed to stir within me were far too similar for me to overlook. And for that alone, I would never fully trust Aribella.
The wedding is in a few months. You should come.” Something felt off here, but I couldn’t put my finger on it and I was in too much agony to care.
Zander banged his hand on the table in triumph. “I’ve thawed the heart of the cruelest lord in Ethereum.”
Aww, he thought I was going to stay behind like a damsel in distress. That was cute.
There was a sadness in his eyes I hadn’t seen before. He was willing to risk it all on the chance that Isolde might be his mate. It was extremely romantic,
