The Curse that Binds (Bewitched #2.5)

by Laura Thalassa

Yes, well, you’re less terrifying as Roxi, Memnon says. Roxilana might cut my heart out of my chest, but Roxi…Roxi sounds like…a friend.

“I have crossed rivers and kingdoms, I have fought armies and bandits to be here before you. For you are mine and I am yours, and those are my soul’s deepest truths.”

There truly are so many things I yearn for, things poets and philosophers, rulers, and scholars have written about. I do not exist solely to procreate, nor does any other woman.