A Vow of Embers (The Eye of the Goddess, #2)

by Sariah Wilson

“Admitting you need us is a good first step. Now you just have to tell the other important person in your life how much you need him.”

“Magic is returning to fight off that evil. There is a reason that everything has happened the way that it did. There’s a reason you’re here now and reasons for what you will have to do in the days ahead. I’m just afraid that it’s going to cost you everything.”

I put my hands over my eyes. I wasn’t sure that I had enough tears left in me to cry. I felt drained, destroyed. Shattered.

This was how my quest ended. In a quiet, deflated defeat.

I had to live. Not only for my loved ones—my family, my adelphia, Locris—but for the women of this place who had been cut down. And for Xander. If anything happened to me, it would happen to him, and I wouldn’t allow that.

As he walked away, I registered the fact that he had referred to the palace as my home, too. It warmed me in a way I didn’t know was possible.

I had sacrificed so much already, survived impossible odds, faced down overwhelming temptation, kept my vows, and for what?

I know this is supposed to be serious but that last part of the line makes me giggle.

Because the only way that Xander and I would both survive this would be if we learned how to count on each other, to trust one another and become a true team, an actual partnership.

All of us together. Many for one.