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“So bow at my feet with a sneer, if you must. I won’t see it with your face to the ground.”
“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 spin her in the moonlight. Smile when she laughs at my expense. And let her step on my toes.
I am grief. I am sorrow. I am anguish alike.
“Paedyn, I love you. Like nothing else before, I love you. And I’ve been waiting to tell you since I realized your eyes are my favorite color and your freckles the only constellation worth looking at. I could lie—say that you’ve stolen my every thought and heartbeat like the thief you are, but all of me was already yours. Pae, you are my inevitable.”
Time slows long enough to let me bask in a moment I’ve only ever dreamt of. She is my dream. She is my piece of paradise. She is my inevitable.
My heart stutters. It is broken and healing and missing Kitt beside me. But it is full. She is what my scarred heart beats for. I tilt her face toward mine before clutching it in my trembling hands. “I do.” My voice is heavy with emotion. “In every lifetime, I do.”
I breathe in my bride. She tastes like my forever. We walk from beneath the willow’s canopy, hand in hand. King and queen. Shadow and Flame. Poet and muse.
“And what am I?” I trace my thumb along her bottom lip. “A fool. A cocky bastard?” Her voice is steady. “You are mine, Malakai.”
“There is that smile I have been waiting to memorize.” Paedyn blinks up at me in the rain, grin widening. She twines slick arms around my neck before her cold nose is brushing mine. “And you have all the time in the world to admire it.”
The softer star informs, “Life ripped us apart.” “Death brought us together,” the rougher one finishes.
