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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” —The Tempest, William Shakespeare
“They’re going to… destroy her, you know? It has already… been seen. This court will… fall… with her inside it.”
“And the day you save me on a battlefield, I’ll put on a dress and dance a fucking jig.”
“I am no child. My name is Saeris Fane, and I am your queen.”
“A Fae wedding ceremony is extremely sacred. It is the greatest commitment two lovers can undertake in Yvelia. Not because they swear to love and honor each other for all their days. Not because they give each other their hearts, either. It’s sacred because they give each other their names. Their true names. And I can give you everything else, Osha. But I can’t give you that.”
“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.”
“Three nights. That’s how long I’ve paced this room, fantasizing about fucking you raw, Saeris Fane.”
“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.”
When I sink all the way down onto your cock, you’re not allowed to touch me, I informed him. I’m just a male, he answered in an agonized tone. I’ve never worked a miracle in my life. What gives you… the impression I’d be able to start… working them now?
All libraries contained magic. Even libraries that didn’t specialize in such things. Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even.
“Until you learn how to be gentle, I will not teach you how to be violent.”
Thank the gods, I chanted in my head. Thank the fucking gods. Don’t thank them, came Fisher’s low, resonant reply. Thank me. I’m the one who’s about to make you scream.
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.”
I had been born into the light, but my salvation had been waiting for me in the dark.
“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—” “All right, all right, I think that’s enough of that, thank you.”
“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.”
“There it is,” I whispered. “What?” “The way that you love me. Some would say that is your weakness.” The lines of his face softened. “Some would say that,” he agreed. “But they would be wrong. It’s my strength.”
“There are worse ways to go mad, Osha. If I get to fuck my way to insanity with you, then I’d call that a win.” He
For you, gods blessed. Thank you for loving my boy. —E
And anyway… I know you, Saeris Fane. Even as a fragile human, you were strong. Independent. It would have crushed your spirit if I had sheltered you from this world. Your choices had to be your own. I saw that in the end. I see it now, too. Every day. You have a right to walk the road that stretches out before you. I will not rob you of your path by insisting I carry you.”
“You’re a wildfire, Saeris Fane. There’s no controlling you.”
