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“You’re as much a pawn to your father as I am to mine. The difference is that I don’t want to be.”
I refused to be a mere escape for her, a fleeting moment of pleasure that she could find with anyone else. I wanted her to crave me because it was my touch, my presence, that she yearned for with every fiber of her being. Just as I ached for her in return.
“Like salt in the sea, you have become ingrained in every part of me, and I have been drowning in my regrets.”
“Your entire existence has been dedicated to preparing for your place as ruler of our kingdom, yet you have never been revered. It is a privilege I am unworthy of, but I would surrender every breath to worship you if only you would grant me the honor.”
“I am devoted to you.” His intense gaze locked with mine. “Please let me fall to my knees before you and prove my devotion with my tongue against your skin.”
“The gods made you for me. Carved you from the stars themselves until I could no longer bear to gaze up at the sky without longing for you.”
These were the moments that I longed for my mother, that I damned the gods for taking her from me. They took her from me, and they left me with this monster.
