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“She’s clearly part of some elite smuggling ring.” Elian turns to him and gasps, placing a hand to his heart. “Gods,” he says, lowering his voice to a conspiratorial whisper. “What if she’s a pirate?”
“Poison?” I muse. “Were you keeping that around for your future wife?” “It’s not lethal,” Elian says. For a killer, he seems oddly offended at the idea. “And no.” He pauses, then turns to me with a half smile. “Unless you were my wife.” “If I were your wife, then I’d take it.”
“What would you be losing?” he asks. “If I married you?” I stand to tower above him, pushing away the unraveling thing inside me. “I suppose it would be my mind.”
Some people burn so brightly, it’s impossible to put the flames out. Thankfully, that’s just what I need.
Keto created our race in war and savagery, but it was the sea queens who took her hate and made it our legacy.
If nothing else, I won’t stand by and watch someone else lose their kingdom just so I won’t be alone when I lose mine.
“Lira,” I say, the word more like a plea than a name. “You’re not going to die.”
We’re the same, he and I.
He smiled because he saw me. Free and alive, and already making my way back to him.
There are countless words I could use to describe Cristian, but a man’s character is better seen in his actions than the laments of his loved ones.
He belongs to the ocean. He is made from it, as much as I am. Kindred.
Royalty never owes anyone anything.” Her use of the word royalty stings more than it should. I’ve spent so long trying to escape that as my only marker, and for her to say it with such certainty, as though she’s never once seen me as something else, pinches. Always a prince, never just a man.
“You should be careful,” I tell Yukiko. “The thing about taking something that’s not yours is that there will always be someone out there ready to take it back.” “I suppose I’ll have to watch my back, then.” “No need,” I tell her. “I can see it perfectly.”
4+4= ATE
The stars are one of them. They’re Elian’s in a way that they’re no one else’s.
“People don’t tell secrets because someone needs to know them. They do it because they need someone to tell.”
How strange that instead of taking his heart, I’m hoping he takes mine.
It may not be the ocean, but it’s enough. Water as wild as I am.
Delicate in a way I’ve only known with him.
Only now she is something more than just a siren, or a girl masquerading as a pirate. She is a goddess.
She can’t see the world with me, so we settle for me bringing the world to her.
