“Do you wish I was him?” he asked in a pained voice that shook with the emotion he couldn’t mask. He did not need to specify for me to know who he meant. The hurt in his eyes as he’d asked the question made my stomach knot. “Never,” I answered as I stared up at him and cupped his face, a face that displayed so much insecurity in that moment. Whatever it was that I felt for Agesipolis, my love for Eryx was greater. “For as long as there is breath in my lungs, I will love you. Only you. And even when I leave this world, I will still belong to you, for my soul will forever seek yours. In both
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