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“My weakness! My vulnerability! I’ve known for centuries that you were coming.
And you show up, and you have one fucking name, and everybody knows it. And I couldn’t say it because I was scared. Of what it would do to me when I did. It would be like acknowledging you were here after all this time. So I called you Osha instead. But it meant more, Saeris. To me, it meant more.”
“Most sacred,”
She had no idea what your name would be. Just that you’d have dark hair, and a beautiful smile. And that I’d love you with a fierceness despite myself.”
she drew you.”
“Your stomach was torn wide open. You were dying. I had no choice but to bring you back. So I decided to be awful to you, so you’d fucking hate me and want nothing to do with me.”
I felt it, like a band snapping into place.
“You… rejected our bond?”
“If it were up to me, we wouldn’t spend another night without each other again.”
Make me forget that I’ve ever suffered, I commanded. Make me forget that I will again.
Mates.
He’d accepted me as his mate.
“I’m in love with you, Saeris Fane,”
My heart and my soul knew exactly where to find him.
“I release you from your oath to us, Kingfisher, Bane of Gillethrye. Now, go on. Tell your friends all about the deal you struck with us all those years ago.”
“The coin never hit the ground,”
My love.
In two days’ time, you officially become the new queen of Sanasroth.”
Acknowledging them meant missing them, and I couldn’t bear the ache.
The coin I was looking for contained silver, which meant he shouldn’t have been able to tolerate being near any of these coins, and yet here he sat.
He had to hurt me. I didn’t have to hurt him. I didn’t want to hurt him . . .
the will of a god sword tugging at my soul.
“I’m getting the fuck out of here.”
She was holding Solace.
I realized with no small amount of horror that I knew her face.
had seen it a hundred times, sketched into the pages of my mother’s notebooks.
The female I would love and scourge the worlds for.
she was beautiful.
What cruel kind of irony was it that I would find the one I was destined to spend my life with at last, only to discover that she wasn’t long for the world?
Of course this was Zilvaren,
But the one place that would offer her the best chance of survival was the one place I absolutely did not want to go.
“You had better pull through this, Oshellith,” I told her. “For better or for worse, I get the feeling that you’re about to turn everything upside down.”
