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“This is the truth: I would have married you in a heartbeat, had you asked me. I would have married you knowing you would hand me over to my killers—or kill me yourself—the moment you found out what I was. That’s how pathetic I am, Gideon! That’s how desperately I wanted to be yours!”
RUNE WAS RIGHT ABOUT one thing: she wasn’t just a girl. Not to him. She was so much more than that.
He was thinking about how, now that he wasn’t allowed to have her, she was all he wanted.
him. It didn’t matter what he’d admitted in the yellow house. None of it mattered. Rune knew he would never choose her. He couldn’t. Not even if he wanted to.
Rune was the missing heir.
“You are far worse than a thorn in my side,” he said, his dark eyes gleaming at her. “You are a knife in my heart.”
Rune— I hope you find the freedom you’re looking for. Yours, Gideon
TRUE LOVE’S CURSE is an Arcana spell. It prevents a victim from being with his true love by inflicting pain whenever he touches her skin to skin.
“The problem with love is the more you try to destroy it, the stronger it becomes.”
“It might look like weakness on the surface. But in truth, it’s tougher than steel. Love can’t be controlled. Love can’t obey unjust laws. Love will always oppose tyrants.”
“Because I was stupid enough to fall in love with a witch hunter. Stupid enough to hope he might love me back. And if he did, I wasn’t going to let anything come between us again.”
“There is a better world waiting to be born, Rune. A world that belongs to all of us. But it will never arrive if we don’t fight for it.”
Gideon let out a soft cry, but he didn’t fail her. Pulling the trigger, he sent a bullet straight into her heart.
