“My love for you is as unwavering and steady as the winds from Mount Wolfsbane. I’d give it all up if you told me to. I’d abdicate tomorrow.” I scoff, folding my arms over my chest again, trying not to flush at his words. Because truthfully, I love him, too, even as I hate him. The warring emotions threaten to crater me where I stand. “You’re the most powerful woman in Nocturna, Meryn.” The certainty in his deep tone heats my blood, makes me look him straight in his glittering eyes. “You can bring this kingdom to its knees with just a word.”
