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September 12, 2025
He lifted my hand to an indecently well-formed and full mouth. To lips that were somehow soft yet unrelentingly firm. Lips that had spun beautiful words into the air and whispered heated, wicked promises against my bare skin. Lips that had paid homage to the many scars that riddled my body and face.
Lips that had also spoken blood-soaked lies.
“Which part confuses you?” he asked, amber eyes unblinking. “It’s the part where you think I would actually marry you.”
But I felt no fear. I was too furious to be scared.
“I thought the plan—” “What you think is irrelevant.” The Prince silenced the older man.
“You can use her,” Landell fumed. “She is the Queen’s favorite—the Chosen. If they were ever to release your brother, it would be for her. Instead, we’re going home for you to marry?” He jerked his chin toward me. “Her?”
mind your tongue boy
Across from me, Kieran’s head snapped in Landell’s direction. “If you have any intelligence, you would stop speaking. Now.”
that part
“I do not choose her. I will never choose her,”
“What matters is that I choose her,” Casteel spoke, and my stupid, stupid heart skipped a beat, even though I did not choose him. “And that is all that matters.”
snarled. “I will not choose that scarred-face bitch.”
alright Casteel, kill him now.
Landell’s hand dropped to his hip. “I’ll see her dead before I stand by and allow this.” Seconds, mere heartbeats passed from when those words left Landell’s mouth, and the frenzied stir of air as it lifted wisps of hair at my temples. Casteel’s chair was empty. A shout, and then something heavy clanged off a dish. A chair toppled, and Landell…he was no longer standing by the table. His plate was no longer empty. A narrow dagger lay there, one designed for throwing. My wide eyes followed the blur that was Casteel as he pinned Landell to the wall, his forearm pressed into the wolven’s throat.
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THAT IS RIGHTTTTTT
that had been all, I would’ve overlooked it. If you had stopped after the first time you referenced her, I would’ve let you walk out of here with just your overinflated sense of self-worth. But then you insulted her. You made her flinch, and then you threatened her. I will not forget that.” “I—” Whatever Landell was about to say ended in a gurgle as Casteel’s right arm thrust forward. “And I will not be able to forgive you.”
Casteel jerked his arm back, throwing something to the floor. It landed with a fleshy smack. My lips slowly parted as I realized what the lumpy, red mass was. Oh, my gods. A heart. It was an actual heart.
“At least, I gave him a quick death. There is some dignity in that.”
oh my gods, he just ripped a wolven’s heart from his chest with his bare hand.
“There is no side of you that is not as beautiful as the other half. Not a single inch isn’t stunning.” His lashes lifted, and the intensity in his stare held me captive. “That was true the first time I said it to you, and it is still the truth today and tomorrow.”
I’d believed him then. And I’d felt beautiful for the first time in my life, something that had also been forbidden to me.
And gods help me, but I still believed him.
“I’m also sure that we came to the conclusion that you have never been free, Princess,” Casteel tacked on. The truth of those words was still as brutal as it was when they had first been spoken. “I don’t believe you would even recognize freedom if it were ever offered to you.”
sir that was rude
“But he’s the one thing in all the kingdoms that you, and only you, never have to fear.”
Our bodies had come together because of my attraction to him. Because how I felt for him had been greater than the truth of what and who he was.
