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I am the monster who hunted her down. I am the beast who delivered her to this doom. And I am afraid I’ll become so much worse when I’m no longer striving to deserve her.
“Don’t make promises you can’t keep.” “It’s not promises I care to keep—it’s you.”
“So bow at my feet with a sneer, if you must. I won’t see it with your face to the ground.”
“Every person who has ever said that to me is gone. And I… I need you more than I need those words.” I smile, pressing a kiss to her forehead. “It will take far more than mere words to drag me from you, darling.” “It better,”
And when she kisses me, long and fierce, I realize how happily I’d live the rest of my life at the end of a blade. So long as she is the one holding it.
The one person meant to be my undoing saved me from it.
“Everyone loses themselves to something. So make it worthwhile.” I let him tilt my head in the dim light. He dabs gently at a bead of dried blood clinging to my temple. “And what did you lose yourself to?” “Duty. Loyalty.” His lips quirk. “A silver-haired pain in the ass.”
“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.”
“I won’t be charmed by your pretty words, Prince.” The corner of my mouth curls into a wicked smile. “Seems a bit late for that, doesn’t it?” “Cocky bastard,” she whispers. “Pretty Pae.”
“Death himself couldn’t drag me from you.”
“Where’s your sword? I need to hit something.” A ray of sunshine, this one.
Shadow and Flame. Formidably inevitable. “Forever my undoing.”
This life is sweet. Like honey.
