Of Flames & Fallacies (The Arterian #1)

by Courtney Whims

“The one son.” Her voice grows louder. “Chosen to lead them all. Wasn’t a son but a maid.”

Find Cole, and take her to the Dragon Lands. You aren’t safe here. Don’t come back. Trust no one.

Fire incarnate. Flame in flesh. Blood of power.

Once bonded, a pair cannot be separated. They become intrinsically one. Shall one die, the other shall too.

“Fire incarnate. Flame in flesh. Blood of power,”

What you are to me, I may never be able to justify in the significance of words. But you are, always have been and always will be, my beginning and my end. And every breath of my existence in between.

Until the sun rises in the south and sets in the north, I will always be yours.”

“No. What doesn’t kill me better fucking run,” Darian grumbles.

“Sometimes love is our greatest strength. And sometimes it’s our greatest weakness. It all just depends on how you wield it.”

Because for me, it’s always been you. And it always will be you. I am fearfully yours, my love. Wonderfully in love with every piece of you, broken and whole. Regardless of whether you love me or not.

Something might have changed in you, but you never changed in me.”