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She looked back at me, her eyes clashing with mine, and in that moment, I knew that every word I had spoken was true. Nothing would make me regret her.
“Like salt in the sea, you have become ingrained in every part of me, and I have been drowning in my regrets.”
again. I don’t deserve you after everything I’ve done.”
“I am devoted to you.”
“You are mine, Verena,” he growled. “You belong to me.”
“I will never let anyone hurt you again.” He promised something that he would never be able to honor, but his oath burned through me as if he had branded it within my veins. “The king will never touch you again.”
“I am yours, Verena,” he growled against my mouth. “In this kingdom and the next, wherever the tides take you, I am yours.”
“Unless you want me to. I will call you anything you desire.”
“Whatever comes.” I didn’t know if it was a statement or a question, but I knew my answer either way. “Whatever comes, you are mine.”
love.”
“That’s a kind of power that kings kill for, Verena. A kind of power they’d keep caged to make sure they never lose hold of it.”
“It’s a vow.” The words hung in the air. “A bond between two souls in marriage.”
I swallowed before pressing another kiss to her knuckles. “It’s reserved for mates.”
And I couldn’t stop thinking about the night before, about the things she had said, the story she had told. I hadn’t been sure before, but it thrummed through me now, making sure that I wasn’t foolish enough to mistake it again. Verena was my mate.
he was alive. Dacre was my mate. I knew it the moment he said the words to me in that room.
I could feel the very fiber of my being change as if fusing me to him.
He had given everything up for me, was willing to leave this world behind for me, and now he was gone.
Longed to leave everyone and everything but him behind. I closed my eyes and dreamed of his face. I yearned for the way he looked when he had called me his. I was Princess Verena, heir to the Marmoris Kingdom, but more than anything, I was his.
