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were not being accepted with near as much patience as I would have wished. I was just in so much pain today for some reason.
“My child, I knew your mother far longer than you and have grieved deeper than you can possibly imagine. Do not tell me not to speak about her, you who haven’t even grieved her death yet.”
I can't even
“You won’t remember me after tonight. They are removing me from your memories, but the bond will be in place forever. I will never stop watching over you, even when you don’t know I exist.”
Excuse me?!
Mendax leaned into me until my back was smashed against the mirror so hard, it fell from its place on the wall and off the counter, shattering into pieces on the floor beneath me. “Do—not—question—how—much—I—care,” he ground out through clenched teeth.
Mmmmmm
I didn’t know if he was going to say fuck it and kill me or fuck me. I wished I could say I wasn’t scared of him, but the truth was he terrified me. Knowing he could crush me at any moment but instead chose to cherish me was intoxicating.
“I love you, Calypso, and I always will. I’ve never seen you as happy as you are with him and”—he coughed as his own eyes filled with tears—“my family has done so much to take your happiness away. I want to do this.” A tear rolled down his tan cheek. “I never wanted to run Seelie or be a prince. I just wanted to help you, and now I can.
“You would have made a terrible hero,” he said with a warm smile that didn’t reach his eyes. “Please make her happy. Oh! She really likes jokes with cats in them.”
Another tear fell from his reddened eyes. “Those get her every time.”
It was obvious now that those two really did have something more than just a friendship; it was a soul-connecting relationship created by pain and suffering and solidified with the mortar of something I knew I would never be able to understand. The pain that surged through the bond in that moment was easily more pain than I’d felt in all the wars and battlefields combined, and it buckled
