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“Ten minutes,” he says. “Five for your mother, and five for you. We know who saved us today.”
“I am as unknown as he is, and you still trust me,” she says. “I will not be another battle you have to fight.”
A little brotherly advice? Fall in line and find someone else to fuck. That infamous control of yours so much as flickers in her direction—” “I would never,” Xaden retorts, his voice lethally icy.
“Even you don’t get a say in which parts of us are taken first, Riorson.” Jack laughs. “But speaking from personal experience, control goes quickly.
Xaden is mine. My heart, my soul, my everything. He channeled from the earth to save me, and I’ll scour the world until I find a way to save him right back.
Your wings won’t hold the weight of this ice,’” Andarna blatantly mocks him. “And yet yours miraculously carry the burden of your ego.”
“I’ve decided you can all go fuck yourselves. I’m not running from him. Even in the moments he’s lost control, he’s never hurt me. He never will.”
“Pain isn’t a competition,” I assure him. “There’s always enough to go around.”
shadows explode around us, immediately devouring every speck of light in a sea of endless black I instantly recognize as home.
“I trust you.” Not a trace of red to be seen. “You shouldn’t.” He wraps his arm around my waist and tugs me against his body.
“Telling me you’re capable of horrible things while still loving me is pretty much your idea of foreplay.”
“Scared of you?” I shake my head. “Never.” “You will be,” he whispers, looking over my features like he needs to memorize them.
“I have every faith in your ability to protect yourself, but say the word and I’ll rip the doors off their hinges.”
“I can feel it. I can feel you.”
“What happened to not getting into trouble?” “I never promised that.”
“A kiss isn’t enough. It never is with us.”
“You want me the same way that I want you. Wholly. Completely. With nothing but skin between us. Heart, mind, and body.”
“All I want is to lose myself in you, and I can’t. You are the only person in the world with the power to strip me of every ounce of my control, and the only per...
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“I won’t lose you, not even to yourself.”
“I am yours and you are mine, and there’s no law or rule in this world or the next that will change that.”
“I’m either completely in love with your boyfriend or utterly terrified of him,” Ridoc says under his breath. “Not sure at the moment.”
“I never need to draw a sword because I am the weapon. I’m just good with blades for the fun of it.”
“I’d give anything to be able to finish it.” Xaden’s fingers curl. “You’re going to be the death of me.”
“You’d have to own a heart to break it,” I immediately counter. “And the only hair I remember is your professor’s covering your face when I walked in on her riding you. It was auburn, right?”
“I haven’t so much as thought about you in years. Don’t chase just because you like a challenge. You’ll lose.”
And yet…if all of it hadn’t happened, would we still be us? Or is the miracle of our relationship the result of a precise combination of tragedies that broke us both so completely that when we collided, we became something entirely new?
“I’m never running. It’s you and me, no matter what.” “You and me,” he repeats,
“You have to let go for me, love.” Xaden nips my lower lip.
“My loyalty is to Violet first above everything, everyone else,” Xaden says. “Then Tyrrendor. Then Navarre in the moments it’s worthy—usually when Violet is in residence.”
“The pain. The mess. Give it to me. I’ll hold it.
“You already hold my soul and now you want my pain? Getting greedy, Violence.”
The two of them could break and reshape the Continent if they chose to.
“This discussion isn’t over,” Xaden warns as we turn our attention to the field. “Happy to win the fight again later.”
“My control when it comes to you is an illusion. You are the temple where I worship.
“Keeping my hands off you has been the feat of my life, and you have the power to shred my discipline with a single fucking touch.”
“I love you more than this city. Do not die defending it.”
“You’re the variable I’m missing, and worse, you make Riorson one, too.”
“Theophanie knows you’ll try to save everyone like you did in Resson, or at Dunne’s temple, or Basgiath before Mom…” He swallows. “That’s why we’ll fail. Because you will choose everyone over yourself, and he will choose you over everyone.”
