A Deal with the Elf King (Married to Magic, #1)

by Elise Kova

for those who need a break and a second glass of wine

But I think that anything different is all too easily used as an excuse for hatred.”

I was young and reckless. Now I’m older…and apparently still reckless.

I do like amusing him. I like his small smiles and mischievous looks.

“You look like a goddess,” Eldas amends. “I would not change a single thing about you, Luella.”

After all, a woman’s natural beauty is enhanced best by her own confidence.”

“If things were different, you wouldn’t have been you.” He finally looks back to me. His once icy eyes are now tepid pools as inviting and warm as the creeks I would strip bare and swim in underneath the redwood trees deep in the forests around the temple. “And I’ve found I’m very fond of exactly the woman you are. I wouldn’t change a single thing.”

Eldas kisses me like the creature of darkness that he is, determined to consume every last flicker of my light.

There’s no point in denying it. This prickly, awkward, and somewhat emotionally stinted man has become mine.

“I liked how we went about this,” Eldas says. His voice is auditory silk. It brushes over my skin and my body tenses. “Because it led me to you.”