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"Say my name," he ordered. "I want to hear my name on your lips when you come."
"I can see your line of fate, how it twists and turns through the coming centuries." He paused, seeming to weigh his words. "But his... his is cut short."
“That’s not the only problem, Thais. I don’t just want your body. I want all of you. Every single piece. If we go there, it will ruin me for the rest of my life.”
"Fuck it," he said, and then his mouth was on mine.
"Whatever this is, whatever it costs, I want it," I whispered against his lips, the words a vow I couldn't take back.
"You taste like starlight and sin," he murmured against my throat.
"I've known pleasures both divine and profane. But never—" he said, while his thumb began a maddening circle around my clit. "Never have I wanted anyone the way I want you."
"Now," he said, his voice a dark promise that made me shiver with anticipation. “Are you ready for me to ruin this perfect body until you're addicted to the way I make you feel?”
"I'll buy you a hundred more." His smirk was insufferable, and yet heat bloomed low, thick and undeniable. "But right now, I need it off."
“You look like you’re mine.”
"Say it," he demanded. "Say you're mine." "Yours," I gasped. The last of my resistance crumbled.
Together, he confirmed. Until the end—whatever that looks like.
“You don’t understand.” He cut me off. “I love you, starling. I’m in love with you.”
"I won’t hide from it anymore. I’m done doing what everyone else requires of me. Done. I’m choosing me now. And I’m choosing you. Tell me that you want this too," he murmured against my neck, his hands already working at the fastenings of my dress. "That you’ll be mine."
"Harder, starling? As if I hadn’t already planned on marking you so thoroughly that every god in every realm would know you belong to me."
"And I'm yours," he growled. "Every part of me belongs to you, Thais. My body, my heart, my fucking soul—it's all yours."
My eyes found her easily in the masses. Her beauty had always been enough to destroy me. But seeing her now, I was practically rioting to be near her.
"Everyone matters," I said quietly. "You just chose to matter in the worst way possible."
"The storm's only as strong as it is alone," I finished, another blade growing in my hand. "But two winds together can tear the sky apart."
But as I felt her sit there, vacant and still, I knew the truth. I'd already lost her too. Just in a different way.
I'd thought about forever with him. About the promise in his eyes when he called me starling. About feeling safe in his Bone Spire. But forever was a concept I couldn't grasp anymore. How could I think about eternity when I couldn't feel anything past the next breath?
"My heart will only ever beat for you." The words came out rough, edged with darkness. "You own me completely. You always will."
"Then I'll carry it forever." He said it like a simple fact. Like the sun rising. "That's what loving someone means."
Love. What a cursed, vicious thing.
