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Ferron usually wore nothing, not even a wedding band. The only piece visible was a slender, dark metal ring on his right hand.
“Are you wanting a confession? Shall I tell you everything I’ve done?”
“All right, then, but only because you asked.”
“No. It’s always about power. And what people will do without caring about the cost.”
So you see, I am intimately acquainted with the illusion of choice.” He smiled, slow and cruel. “That’s why I recognise it.”
He was always cruellest when he was vulnerable.
“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.”
He was fire, and she was already consumed.
She was locked in the dangerous embrace of Kaine Ferron, and it felt like home.
I was trying to hurt you, but I am so sorry that I did.”
“Don’t worry. I’m always going to come back to you.”
“Call me, and I will come.”
The war was a cage with no escape.
Calculating, Cunning, Devoted, Determined, Ruthless, Unfailing, Unhesitating, and Unyielding.
“Just live, Helena.” His voice was shaking. “That’s all I’m asking you to do for me.”
Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn’t stolen.
No amount of evasion could hide him; he was the fabric of her thoughts. Her every action tied to him.
“It seems I am cursed to love as you do.”
because the only person who’d die for me is you.”
“We have to stop hurting ourselves for each other,” she finally said. “Both of us. We’re not going to last if this is the only way we know how to love.”
she doesn’t deserve to be forgotten like this. She shouldn’t be a footnote. This shouldn’t be the only entry she even has. She deserves her own chapter. She deserves a whole damned book of her own.”
