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September 9, 2024
Before I could shout a warning to Kieran, he was there, tall and as dark as the night creeping into the ruins, his blue-black hair windblown.
“I love him,” I whispered. Kieran paused by my legs. “Are you just now figuring that out?”
“I love you, Penellaphe. You. Your fierce heart, your intelligence and strength. I love your endless capacity for kindness. I love your acceptance of me. Your understanding. I’m in love with you, and I will be in love with you when I take my last breath and then beyond in the Vale.” Casteel lowered his head, pressing his lips against mine.
“I know. You’re hungry. But you can’t eat Kieran. That would make me a little sad.”
“I…I tried to eat Kieran.” “He won’t hold it against you.” “I tried to eat Kieran while I was naked.” “That’s probably why he won’t hold it against you.”
I was losing you, and you are my everything.”
Well, killing people by turning their emotions back on them would probably count as an amazing ability—a scary one—but why couldn’t I morph into something like a dragon? That would be incredible.
“You are meyaah Liessa. Wake up.”
“If you think that what I did was a shock, then you need to understand that I will do anything and everything for my wife.” Casteel’s gaze latched on to his father’s. “No risk is too great, nor is anything too sacred. Because she is my everything. There is nothing greater than her, and I do mean nothing.”
“You don’t have to thank me. You’re family now. Of course, I would help you.”
“Meyaah Liessa. It means: my Queen.”
Always and forever.
No matter how much I trained with weapons and my body, my waist would never be narrow, nor would my hips ever be slender like the Ladies in Wait in Solis. I liked cheese and bacon and chocolate-covered everything too much for that.
I was only now learning how to be seen.
“Do I look foolish?” “You look perfect.”
“All of that sounds incredibly sad and also hopeful. I mean, that if your mother did love Malec, she was still able to find love again. To open herself like that once more. I don’t know…” I held the journal close to my chest. “I don’t know if I could do that.”
Don’t borrow from tomorrow’s problems? I needed to start living that way.
There cannot be equality in power if there is no choice.”
Only you control your actions. Not your blood—not your bloodline.
“Unrest and unease are two very powerful destabilizers of any society.
“I am unworthy of you,” he stated roughly. “You are a dream.”
His steady gaze met and held mine. “Just like I see you for who you are. My Queen.”
I will not replace the veil you loathed with a crown you hate.
