He grabbed both her cheeks in his hands and crushed his lips back to hers. He shut his eyes tight, the way he did when he was in pain. Trying to show her with everything he had that he loved her, too. The destiny monster may have decided their fate, but it couldn’t have his mind, his thoughts, his kiss. And Trystan used all of them in that moment to show Evie he loved her more than life, more than breath…more than death. Kissing her more deeply, like he was defying the gods, defying destiny, defying everything that had ever told him he didn’t deserve the precious thing he held in his hands.
