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If I must die a fiery death at her hands… I just hope I go with my Xavi.
“The World Ender had a lover and not just a fling like in his past. They say she is a beast made of flame and hate, and she followed you lot back. His beast. The female Ig’Morruthen.” Dianna. He meant Dianna.
existed. How ironic was I? The boy who was so afraid of monsters in the dark that I became the very thing I feared.
If he was the sun, by the old gods, she was the moon. Powerful, dark, and overbearing at times. She never left him, nor he her, as if they danced around each other for eternity.
“What’s dessert?” I asked Reggie. He only shook his head. “Some things are better left unknown.”
“That’s not fair to you. What about what you want?” He met my gaze, something burning in those cobalt eyes. “I can’t have what I want.” My skin flushed with the way he looked at me. I didn’t know how I felt about his words, but my body understood exactly what he had said. It was all in and ready for whatever he wanted to give.
Samkiel draped his other arm across my chest and pulled me tight against him, tucking his knee between my thighs. He rested his face on the back of my neck and inhaled deeply.
“This.” He held the ring between us, its diamonds shimmering in the setting sun. “This is no matter what.” “I’ll hurt you.” My voice came out as small and damned as I felt. “Then hurt me.” Samkiel’s eyes softened, and he stepped closer, his body almost flush with mine. “But don’t leave me.”
Samkiel lightly grabbed my arms. “How could I not be completely and utterly in love with you?” “You love me?” My heart melted. “With everything I am and everything I ever will be.”
“Saving someone from something that horrific doesn’t make you a good guy. It makes you decent. It should be normal to be disgusted with that,”