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dissonance.
contingencies.
opaque.
He touched her cheek, tilting her face up and kissing her. “Use the ring, call me, if you ever need anything.”
Lila would never see her twin again.
He didn’t let go. “Helena…” She stilled at her name.
“You’re mine,” he said
He pulled her close, crushing her to his chest. “You’re mine. You swore yourself to me. Now and after the war. I’m going to take care of you. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you. You don’t have to be lonely. Because you’re mine.”
She reached out, her fingers brushing back his hair. “Don’t worry. I’m always going to come back to you.”
“Be careful, Kaine. Don’t die.”
“I hate your hair like that,” he said, startling her.
Her fingers stilled. She could see the hunger in his eyes. Possessive. Ravenous. He would drag her from the war and hide her the instant she let him. The conflict was visible in his eyes. Want. Want. Want. She felt it like her heartbeat.
She’d fallen for a dragon.
“Call me, and I will come.”
“Don’t die.”
“You’re mine. I’ll always come for you.”
“I’m going to take care of you. I swear, Helena, I’m always going to take care of you.”
circumvent
florilegium
“Do you see my scars that way?” he finally said. “When you look at me, are they all you see?” She flinched. “No.” “Well.” He met her eyes. “I don’t see you that way, either. You’re mine.”
grandeur
“Be careful,” she whispered. “Don’t die.”
tacit
“Don’t die.”
mithridatism?”
“Don’t die, Kaine. You can’t leave me behind.”
When the bed dipped, she woke to find him on the far side of the mattress. His hair was damp and hung over his eyes. She shifted across the bed and into his arms, burying herself there, letting her eyes close as she traced her fingers across his skin. She would know him blind.
implicit.
Reticent
vehemence
fodder.
Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn’t stolen.
inundated,
exponential.”
“My brother and I were born entwined. We entered the world as one when we slid from our mother’s womb. We’d sucked her dry from within, and the fires of her pyre licked across our skin, branding us from birth. Cursed children, they called us, when they called us anything at all.
The words cut her to the quick. She should have known. She should have known Luc better, enough to know he wouldn’t turn on her like that. He was too faithful.
you’ll be alive and away from the war. Those were always my terms.”
phosphorus
glaive,
Lacunae
“Be careful. Don’t die.”
morass
“Kaine…” She reached towards him. “You’re not a monster. You didn’t have any choice. Neither of us—we were both raped.”
“Did you really think I would still hate you once I remembered?” She shook her head. “Even before I did, you were the only thing that ever felt safe. I thought I was going mad, but a part of me always knew you. I left a note. Didn’t you get my note? I love you.”
“I’m sorry—I’m sorry—I’m so sorry for everything I did to you,” he said, his voice hoarse and broken. “I love you. You left, and I’d never told you.”
She brought his face back to hers. “I love you,” she said, kissing him. “I wish I’d told you a thousand times.”
She shook her head. “I don’t want to choose. I always have to choose, and I never get to choose you. I’m so tired of not getting to choose you.”
He looked back at her. “You’re not choosing. You promised me anything I wanted. I want you to stop breaking yourself trying to save me. Go. Live. Tell our daughter I saved you both. That—is what I want.”
He gave a gasping laugh, almost more of a sob. “Did you know, you are the worst promise keeper I have ever met?” Her throat tightened. “I keep the ones that matter.” “No.” He shook his head. “What you do is make so many conflicting promises that you can pick and choose depending on what you want. I’ve devoted some thought to your methodology.” He looked down. “That’s why you never seem to keep any of the promises that I care about.”
asinine.”
