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“She needs me to find her; she…she needs me to remind her to breathe.”
Bloodsinger surged his way pretty high on my book boyfriend list 🥺😍🥺
“I so look forward to the moment you realize what sort of monster you’ve unleashed. Erik will destroy you, and, gods, I hope he takes his time.”
“I will do every wrong and wicked thing if it brings her back.”
“If I do not find her, I’ll offer my throat for you to slit.”
“What do you not understand? I care nothing for my life if she is not in it.”
Gavyn Seeker, still shaping into his broad, strong form from his water shifting, stepped into the room.
“I don’t know how I arrived here, but good hells, it is a relief to see you, My Queen.”
Gods, I would not bleeding shed a ridiculous tear in the halls of my enemies.
“Bond or not, you are mine, and gods, I’m yours, love.”
“Your daughter is my beacon. I will never regret taking her, for she is my home. I love her, Queen.
There is no part of me that would choose anything over her. Let. Me. Go.”
“Aye,” she said. “I do love when men cry out my name as I gut them.”
“It has not changed how fiercely I love Erik Bloodsinger, but it has certainly changed the lines I would cross to reach him.
“All clear…My Queen.” Blood stained his teeth, but his eyes were alight with a dark thrill.
He was a villain, but I knew how to bring a villain to his knees.
“but I am pleased with the blood on your hands today. I slaughtered men in the most painful ways I could think of for betraying my queen.
Light in the darkness, leading two lost hearts home.
“Whatever that bastard thinks he took from us, he failed.
I belong to you, every wretched piece of me.
“Prove my words true,” Erik growled, a dark ferocity written on his features. “You’re mine.”
“Make certain every damn soul in this palace knows it.”
Fear is powerful. Every mind sees it differently, but it is my honor to walk with you through yours.
“I may not be skilled at gentility, but I don’t want the violence I feel to keep you from speaking to me about anything. I will always hear you first, then rage later.”
“Never, in all my bitter life, have I craved such violence,” Erik went on.
“Not with my uncle, not to avenge my father. Only for you.
“I would follow your darkness, every ugly truth, across the skies and seas.”
The point of his first finger traced the edges of the bones around my neck. “Wear only this tonight. Nothing else.”
“Serpent, may I remind you that my father is in this room.”
“I do not sleep well without you. I’ve grown rather accustomed to your overheated skin.”
“I am not overheated. You are merely made of ice.”
“King or not, Erik Bloodsinger, I would follow your darkness across the skies and seas.
You are mine, a beautiful monster, a passionate lover, a loyal friend, a vicious king.
“If you think I am looking for gentle, Serpent, you’re mistaken.”
“I need you to remember you are Livia Ferus, daughter of warriors, seducer of the Ever King, and…you
you are my heartbond. I need no magic, no spell, to tell me that you are written into every thread of my future days.”
“You are Erik Bloodsinger, son of a brave sea witch, challenger of the earth bender, master of the Ever Queen’s body—”
“I would tell you that your bones will adorn her neck.”
“But,” I went on, my voice like the threat of the storm above,
“I think you’ll be better suited as her crown. As you said, she’s not been given a proper one yet.”
“Today you’ll die alone, unloved, and despised.
I will send your flesh to the Otherworld, cursed and marred so the gods know what a wretch you are.
“I wear the blood crown, you wear the bones, love.”
“I made a vow, in this very room, should anyone bring you harm, you wear them as a promise of what becomes of those who dare touch the Ever Queen.
Peel back the gold, and you will have answers to what became of traitors.” The bone crown.
I would relieve Alistair of his centuries’ long service as soon as I could feel my damn cock again.
Rorik snorted. “Bloodsinger fell off the bed and flashed his ass—”
She’d bleeding fallen in love and in bed with the man who kidnapped her and planned to murder her father.
