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October 30 - November 11, 2025
“I need you,”
“Baby, please, please, please.”
“I love you. I love you. I love you.”
“Mine, mine, mine. MINE!”
“I love you,”
“I love you,”
“Who do you belong to?” he growled, pulling out and thrusting deep again. “You.”
“I’m yours! I’m yours! I’m yours! I’m yours!”
“My akrai. My Dianna. My love.”
I’d marked him. “Mine.”
“I want your everything.”
His words healed some still broken part of me. It was real, just as Gabby was to me, and he saw and respected it. Gods, I didn’t think I could love him more, but here we were.
“It sounds like I am yours, and you are mine.”
You will never be Samkiel.”
Here I was, second best again. It was the same in everything. No matter what I did or how powerful I was, I was still not enough. Not for her, for my family or the world, and not for him.
“Akrai, baby,
I’d have you with or without a crown. As long as I have you.”
This woman… she was my everything.
“Don’t Dianna or baby or akrai me,”
“You will not like the outcome if you ask me to choose between you and someone else again. And I don’t care if you huff or roar or stay pissed at me. I am not the hero. That’s your job.”
Samkiel finally had his queen, and she was worthy of him in every way.
She would have torn the realms apart for him and hadn’t even let death come between them.
Dianna cast a flirtatious grin toward him. “Gods, you’re so hot and so smart.”
Dianna was one destructive force, and Samkiel was the one who kept her and everything together. They really were two sides of the same coin.
I will do anything to protect him.”
“I knew you guys were fucking mates. No one else could handle him, honestly. The man has an ego.”
“I fear no gods and no kings.”
“Samkiel, I have loved you since we left Reggie’s vortex, and sometimes, when I think about it, I think I loved you before that too.”
it was the beating of my heart, he owned every part of it, every part of me.
“You own me as well.”
Overprotective godly bastard. I loved him.
He was threatening to take from me the one person who defied nature itself to help me, love me, protect me.
I did not make Oblivion. I was Oblivion.
“Bring your queen home.”
“You give me the best memories.”
I had said it that night, and he had. Under stars, on a lake at night with sparklers and moonkrest who were rare and eternal. And now I wouldn’t remember that or the first time he made me laugh. I wouldn’t remember the festival and the face he made the first time he tried cotton candy, my heart fluttering as I laughed—really laughed—for the first time in ages. I wouldn’t remember the photo booth he could barely fit in, that stupid garden at Drake’s, or that damned flower I’d tossed away the first time we fought. That was when I thought he despised me, but I’d stared at it for days as it
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“I’ll remember that I love you.”
It was a lifeline for me to hold on to until I made it back to him because I would make it back to him.
My world. My heart. My lost soul.
“Samkiel.” My voice emerged as a whisper. I knew what this meant. Everyone would know he was alive. She would know he was alive.
I finally understood the true nature of his destructive power and why they called him World Ender.
“I did not get it. I am it. Oblivion is not something anyone can take from me.”
I raised my hand and willed the gauntlet away to reveal the ring I had made, the one that matched hers. “Dianna will never choose you, even with all your conniving and fail-proof plans. She chose me and has every day from the moment she laid eyes on me. She left you then and never once looked back. Not. Once.”
“You stole our amata mark, so I did the next best thing. She is my wife, my only, and she will never again be yours. Never.”
With just her touch, the cold rage of battle was replaced by peace and comfort.
“Are you okay, akrai?”
“Dianna, my akrai.
“I do not care about them or Nismera, only you. Never do that again.”
“You destroyed a world for me?”
She did not fully understand the lengths I would go for her. Destroying a world was not even a fraction of it. She thought me a hero, but a hero would defy others for the greater good.
