Earth's End (Air Awakens, #3)

by Elise Kova

I’m not sure if any of us would jump off a cliff for someone we weren’t in love with.”

“You show up as if you materialize from the wind itself, to save the life of the crown prince whom you jumped off the side of the Pass in an attempt to save. You’re unassuming, you’re filthy, and you’re soaked in what I can only presume to be the blood of our enemies.” A grin slowly spread across Jax’s face, like that of a rabid beast. “Who said anything about being disappointed?”

He was the start and end of her world, the glue holding together her fragile sanity. He was everything, and without him she was lost.

She was going to be lost if she wasn’t able to use his skin as a roadmap back to sanity.

“Would you, Lady Vhalla Yarl, like to someday be the Empress Vhalla Solaris?”

“You wished for time,” Aldrik explained. “I heard each utterance when you beseeched time to stop, for mornings not to come. I want you to know I shared your every sentiment. I wanted to give you the promise of my minutes, my hours, my days.” His long fingers curled around hers, around the watch. “My future is yours, Vhalla Yarl.”

“You were not born to be their leader, you were chosen. And that has far greater weight.”

Together, they were unstoppable. Bound, Joined, madly in love, there was no longer any boundaries that could limit them. They were a single force of nature.

And by the time the crown prince learned of the Windwalker’s whirlwind departure, Vhalla Yarl was too far to hear his screams of anguish.