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Tella would have willed her pain into power and used it to find a way to fix everything – no matter the cost.
He was so frustrating and confusing and impossible not to think about.
he grinned like the devil he was. He’d known this moment was coming. ‘Hello, wife.’
He just looked up at her as if he were a misbehaving angel with gold hair hanging across his pale forehead.
He smelled like liquor and heartache,
‘What I did was purely selfish. So stab me before I decide to be selfish again. The longer we’re bound together, the more difficult it will be for you to fight it. You might hate me, but you’ll find yourself wanting and needing to be near me. So if you really wish to end this, do it now. Cut me and sever everything that ties us together.’
chest. ‘I don’t know if you’re my true love, Donatella. All I know is that I want you to be.’
I’m selfish, and I want you, but I would never harm you.’
She had, without realizing it, felt just a little bit less alone when they’d been connected. But he wasn’t the person she wanted to be connected to.
Dante had helped her forget, but Legend had taught her how to dream again, and she loved all the dazzling dreams they shared and the exquisite lies he told with his illusions.
She loved the boy who’d called her an angel and a devil in the same conversation.
He looked perfect and tempting, and in that moment Tella felt like a girl from a fairy tale who’d stumbled upon a sleeping god that would give her a prize if she woke him with a kiss.
It was beauty and horror and pain and longing. Legend’s soul was painted on this wall.
But in this picture, she could have been a goddess the way he painted her on those tragic steps, while he looked more like a grim shadow.
He could have set the room on fire from the intensity of his stare. ‘You need to stop looking at me that way.’
She would have told him to get over himself, but she was about to throw herself at him even harder and crack her heart open even wider.
I used to love the idea of something being so tremendous that it was worth dying for. But I was wrong. I think the most magnificent things are worth living for.’
But she knew that if he ever offered her his love, she’d take it and hold on to it forever.
love was the only weapon Scarlett had.
She threatened to kill me if I didn’t untie her, and I was instantly intrigued.’
Legend met her gaze, the dark crescents beneath his eyes back. It only lasted for a second, but for that moment, he looked more human.
boiling red fascination and yellow loathing
‘Torture and death are on their way.’
Other children and adults peered at Scarlett the same way, admiring her merely because she was in a stunning gown and standing on a balcony beside the man with all the power.
Together they traveled down all of the steps of the Golden Tower to the throne room and into a nightmare masquerading as a party.
Julian answered without hesitation, ‘She’s the love of my life.’ Scarlett’s heart broke and burst all at once.
He’d called her a princess earlier, but she was just a pawn.
still the colors around him were fierce and bright and full of the deep, unending crimson love.
She let her love out to touch his, the way two separate instruments might play together to create a more beautiful song,
She wasn’t saving him. She was destroying him.
he was still in pain, but he was also still in love with her.
Julian’s emotions were weak, gray shadows.
They were Fates who fell in love with humans and let themselves become mortal and die. But magic cannot die. So, when their human bodies perished, their magic was transferred into objects.
Scarlett’s words should have sounded impossible. But she was standing in a room full of impossible people – three Fates, one boy who didn’t age and a sister who had died and come back to life.
She’d thought he was letting her go too easily, but clearly he hadn’t really let go.
I’ll always be able to find you, Donatella.’
He was supposed to find him and leave. He wasn’t supposed to be a distraction or a martyr.
