Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy, #3)

by Lauren Roberts

Damn the pretending. Damn the hiding. Damn everything but him and us and this moment where I need him.

“And if we wish for our great kingdom to remain, we will welcome Ordinaries back into it.”

That gesture of goodwill is me.

Perhaps the king really does know how tragically in love I am with his betrothed. Perhaps he is as well.

“Pae.” His voice is ragged. “I would lose my life for you before finding something else worth living for.” His fingers weave into my hair, slide along the back of my neck. “You are my inevitable. In life and in death.”

You are my inevitable.

I love you.

“I love you,” I say again, and pull his face up toward mine. He kisses me, and the world falls quiet. “I love you.” And when the dress slips from my skin, leaving only the rain to clothe me, he seems to whisper into my very soul. “You are my forever.” Shadow and Flame. Formidably inevitable. “Forever my undoing.”

“No. You are strength. Life itself. That is why Death fears you.”

“This is inevitable.”