but the one that had cost him the most. In the end, there had been no prayer to bring him nearly close to the ruin that he was standing in so many feet under. A ruin that he’d sunk into the very moment he’d stayed to watch a human girl with such hate in her heart for him—a hate he’d never seen her possess for anyone else, not even for those who’d hurt her. Before he’d known that the land under him had been quicksand, he’d spent days there on that pale realm, just waiting for her to finally raise her hazel eyes in his direction. Little had he known that the girl had desired the ground more than
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