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

by Elise Kova

But realizing you have a want to kiss someone makes everything agonizing. If I still thought we were just friends, I could’ve kissed him several times over on a dare, or a whim, or if he asked. I could’ve kept his company without my stomach doing flips. But this wanting makes every movement between us unbearable.

I’m at war with myself around him. Every second hurts. I want him to sweep me up in his arms again. But I can’t want that.

“I want to take you away. I want to keep you safe.”

I want to know him so well that I know every time he wants to kiss me and every time he’d let me kiss him.

“It was enough. You are more than enough.”

“I would not change a single thing about you,

“You are my priority,” he says, almost like it’s a decree. I fight a blush. “What is it?”

“I assure you, most of the time I come to talk in the off chance you’re awake, or just to reassure myself no one has spirited you away.

“Eldas, you do more than enough,”

he really is the most handsome man I have ever laid eyes on. And I have wasted half my time with him frittering away my hours on projects and missions that will keep me from him.

“And I’ve found I’m very fond of exactly the woman you are. I wouldn’t change a single thing.”

Get yourself under control, my mind commands. But I’ve already discovered my heart is a poor listener.

“Leave, and I will find you,”

Love is choice,