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I miss Lor like I miss air.
“She makes me want to be the best version of myself,” I say, realizing how true it is. “She’s like the sun, and everything else is just the stars lucky to be moving around her.”
“I don’t know how I lived before you or how I’ll ever live without you.”
“You never will. From now until the sun burns out and the mountains crumble into the sea, I will be yours, Nadir. This is my promise.”
The prince who took my heart and held it in his hand and forced me to see him. But who would have handed it back to me if I’d asked.
This is where I belong. He is where I’ve always belonged.
It is the lot of a mother to wear her heart outside of herself from the moment her children are born.”
If fate is intent on separating us, I’d be happy to spend countless years—lifetimes if I had to—waiting for her because what we have is inescapable. Inevitable. As constant as the moon and stars.
“Stop it. It’s my fucking honor to do this for you. I promised I would burn down the entire world for you, and I meant it every single time.”
My kiss is every promise I’ve offered and the heart that I’ve given to her body and soul.
“I love you,” he says into my mouth. “I love you, Lor. Tomorrow, I will lay down my life, my crown, and my heart, and I will be yours forever.”
“But I am claiming you,” he adds. “Never forget that you are mine.”
You and I are forever. We are inevitable,
he was never my ruin. He was always my salvation.
