Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1)

by Grace Draven

“Had you crawled out from under my bed when I was a child, I would have bludgeoned you to death with my father’s mace.”

“Loneliness is an empty void. We look for that friend in the light.”

“I’m not human, wife,” he whispered into the darkness. Shock rounded his eyes at Ildiko’s response, slurred with sleep and nearly incoherent. “But you’re still mine, husband.”

“Woman of day,” he said slowly. “You mean everything to me.” No amount of blinking this time held back Ildiko’s tears. They streamed down her cheeks to drip off her chin and onto Brishen’s shoulder. “Prince of night,” she said in a watery voice that echoed another moment when she’d greeted him with the same words. “You’ve come back to me.”