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You can own your fantasies with me, Little Osha. There is nothing in this realm or the next that I won’t give to you if you desire it. All you ever need do is ask.
pressure. And I will never come at you with everything I’ve got. You are my mate. I’m in love with you. I couldn’t do that even if
I can hear you from here, y’know. Fisher’s deep growl brushed against my mind like velvet.
You okay, Little Osha? You’ve gone red.
It’s hard to concentrate on camp logistics when I can smell you across the room, though, Osha.
Be under no illusion, Little Osha. You are all I can smell.
I found myself growing more convinced that he was telling the truth. Because I could smell him, too. Bruised herbs. Citrus. Smoke. Leather.
Pine, and cold mountain air.
“From now on, you are Lady of Cahlish.”
“I love you, Fisher.” It was the first time I’d said it. “I love you, and nothing else matters beyond that. Wherever you are, I’ll beg the gods and all the fates to let me be there, too,” I whispered.
“I love you, Fisher. Of course I do. Always. Forever.”
“Now, those scents are amplified a thousandfold. You smell like excitement. You smell like laughter. And peace. And love.”
“You forget that I’m a winter creature, Saeris,” Fisher murmured. “I don’t crave the attention of the sun. The snowcapped mountains, the forest, the frozen river… those places are my home. You are home.”
You’re a gift that cannot be ignored. My heart…”
“I’ve killed more people than I can count. I lost the parts of myself that knew how to feel anything other than pain and sorrow centuries ago. But for better or worse, you have brought me back to life.”
“You taste like the end of the fucking world,” he purred. “Just kill me and be done with it. Nothing will ever be better than this.”
“Thaaat’s it. Good girl. Ride it out.”
“Because I am pleased with myself. Because I’m the luckiest bastard alive. And because you look like you’ve just been thoroughly fucked.”
I was a sight taller than Swift. Significantly better-looking, too, but that was beside the point.
Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even.
Fuck, I just ached for her. I wanted her here, next to me. I wanted to hold her; the fact that she wasn’t in my arms right now felt like the greatest injustice that had ever been inflicted upon me. There was no breathing my way past it.
No, I couldn’t blame the male for seeing what was obvious. I could only pity him that she wasn’t his and be fucking thankful that she was mine.
“I could spend the rest of eternity right here and die happy,” he rumbled. “I could fuck you and feast on you until the ages turned and the suns all died and burned out in the skies, and I still wouldn’t have had enough of you.”
Don’t thank them, came Fisher’s low, resonant reply. Thank me. I’m the one who’s about to make you scream.
“I had no idea what you would mean to me. I had no idea what I would do to keep you safe. When I close my eyes, you are all I fucking see, Saeris Fane. I could be dead in the ground five thousand years and the frosts could have taken my bones, and still no other male will ever have loved another female the way that I love you.”
“Breathe, love. I’ve got you.”
“Hush, love. I’m not going anywhere. I’m right here.”
“Me either. And I plan on keeping it that way. Make
no mistake. I will burn worlds to keep my word to her, old man. There isn’t a single person in this realm or any other that I wouldn’t sacrifice to make sure I don’t let her down. I promised her that I’d bring her brother home. Will you test my resolve in this?”
I opened my mouth… and nothing came out. I tried to form the word, but I couldn’t. “No. I can’t,” I said. “I won’t sacrifice him.”
Look at me, Osha.
I’m going to get you out of here in two minutes, he told me. But I need you to be here a little longer first. Is that okay? Can you do that?
Good girl. Come here, then. Stand with me.
He was so fucking beautiful, it destroyed me.
“You are the only thing that keeps my moral compass pointing north, Little Osha,” he rumbled.
I threw myself at him. “Don’t leave without me again.” I spoke into his hair, inhaling him in as I clung to him.
“Don’t worry,” he whispered. “Rabid mountain trolls couldn’t drag me away from you now.”
Come here. If you can bear the fact that our bodies aren’t touching for one more second, then you’re a better person than me, Saeris Fane,” he whispered.
“Never again,” he murmured. “Wherever we go, we go together.”
“Yes. Promise me.”
“I promise. I swear it. You’re mine.”
“And you are mine.
“You have no flaws, Saeris Fane. You are perfect in my eyes, imperfections and all. I’m in love with every part of you. Your stubbornness. Your wicked tongue. Your foul temper when you’re tired. Your inability to close any door quietly—”
“Every part. I love all of you.” He blew a dark curl out of his eyes. “I’d spend the fortunes of the universe to protect you. I’d drain the seas dry. Fell every tree. I would sacrifice the sun from the fucking sky and surrender the stars, too, if I could. But those things aren’t mine to give. All I have is my life. It isn’t much, but I’d spend it and consider the price small if it meant keeping you safe.”
“The way that you love me. Some would say that is your weakness.”
“But they would be wrong. It’s my strength.”
“She has a tendency to make things feel better.” I laughed, a little chagrined by the admission. “Even when they’re not.”
She’s all Saeris. I love her.”
For you, gods blessed. Thank you for loving my boy. —E
Find it. But do not tell him about it. I mean it. It’s important. He can’t know about the book. Only you. Do you understand?
