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CHAPTER 2 Kai I thought I’d known torment until it wrapped around her finger. No, torment is tangible, and it gleams atop her tanned skin. I stare, unblinking, at the symbol my brother slid onto her finger. It is binding. It is infinite. It is my undoing. A laugh threatens to slip past my numb lips. It’s not as though she hadn’t promised to be my ruin, hadn’t already become my demise. She is the single most destructive thing I have ever desired, and yet, it is the diamond on her finger that will destroy me.
In love with a girl I’d have bowed to long before she became my queen.
I would spend the rest of my days making her flower crowns if she wanted to be a queen. My queen. Not Kitt’s. Not Ilya’s. Mine.
Because she was meant to be the death of me, not the life of another.
It was her I was meant to adore in this world and crawl to in the one after.
“You know I’m betrothed to your brother,” she whispers, lips dangerously close to mine. I swallow, voice stern. “For now.”
But I will only survive this life if she does.
I push slowly through the crowd, my gaze unable to stray from such eminence. But watching isn’t nearly enough. I could fall to my knees, beg to be the only one worthy of witnessing her.
She giggles in a way I’ve never heard before but would beg to again.
He tells me to stop looking at him like that. My voice sounds far away. “And how am I looking at you?” He says I’m looking at him like a promise I can’t keep.
He says he loves me. Again and again.
My favorite color is a shade of her, a sliver of the vibrance she exudes.
“Death himself couldn’t drag me from you.”
“Your arrogance is astounding as always, Kai.” “Thank you.” I cut him a glance. “That wasn’t a compliment.” “Then don’t say my name, and I won’t thank you for the sound.”
