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She studied Ferron for any jewellery or signs of an amulet. Guild families usually wore signet rings and a variety of pins and brooches to indicate their orders and exclusive clubs, but in stark contrast with his wife and father, Ferron usually wore nothing, not even a wedding
band. The only piece visible was a slender, dark metal ring on his right hand.
“What kind of ring is that?” she asked. He looked down. “This?” he asked, as if there were any other rings she could have been referring to. He turned his hand. “Just an old piece.”
“Do I know you?” she asked as her eyes slid closed. “I suppose you do.”
“Ferron always comes for me,” she whispered.
“Don’t die, Marino. I might miss you.”
Calculating, Cunning, Devoted, Determined, Ruthless, Unfailing, Unhesitating, and Unyielding.
“You are not replaceable,” he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. “You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people. The reason I’m here—the reason I’m doing any of this—is to keep you alive. To keep you safe. That was the deal.” He searched her face. “They didn’t tell you.”
She reached out, her fingers brushing back his hair. “Don’t worry. I’m always going to come back to you.”
If he couldn’t hide her, he would hoard her to himself as much as he was able to. She’d fallen for a dragon.
“You’re mine. I’ll always come for you.” He always did.
something happens to you, I will personally raze the entire Order of the Eternal Flame. That isn’t a threat, it’s a promise. Consider your survival as much a necessity to the Resistance as Holdfast’s. If you die, I will kill every single one of them. Given that the risk to their lives is the only way to make you value your own.”
Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn’t stolen.
“You didn’t save me,” he said when he was finally capable of speech. “You just put us in hell for two years.”
“Then I’ll die knowing I tried everything, which is more happily than I’ll live if I leave you here.
“Love isn’t as pretty or pure as people like to think. There’s a darkness in it sometimes. Kaine and I go hand in hand. I made him who he is. I knew what that array meant when I saved him. If he’s a monster, then I’m his creator.”
She was a non-active member of the Order of the Eternal Flame and did not fight.
