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Dark hair, dark eyes, a gold ring in one nostril. Lips I somehow know often say crude things—or maybe it’s his entire demeanor that tells me that, but there’s something inherently vulgar in his beauty.
“Why did you come here?” He’s really smiling now. “For you, of course.”
“She has beautiful eyes,” he says softly, like he’s lost to memory. “They’re brown and green and amber, like every color of every season. I’ve looked everywhere for eyes like hers, and nothing has ever been able to compare.”
“I looked for you. In every market and podunk town, in every corner of every land, I searched each face for yours.”
Acker smiles, but it’s straight filth when he says, “Shame. I was kind of looking forward to tying you up.”
“Once we’re at the palace,” he says, eyes darting between mine as he stares up at me, chin tilted at the perfect angle for me to watch the bob of his throat as he swallows roughly. “I will sleep wherever you want me to. Whether it’s on the floor or in the dirt or in your bed, I’ll be there if you want me.”
It can take a long time to sort through the heartache, to separate what once was from what is meant to be.”
“You can never get loving people wrong, Jo. There’s no shame in accepting your feelings for Kai, just like there’s also none for accepting that you have them for Acker.”
