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“Then be beside me. They’re people, not a flock of geese. I’m not throwing coins at them like bread crumbs.
“I’m a king. For every enemy I face, there are ten I cannot name, but they are always there, waiting for an opening.”
As much as I’d prefer to shrink into the shadows, I haven’t survived this long by playing the lamb when a wolf is needed.
“Are you testing me?” “I’m always testing you, Romeria.” Quietly, he adds, “And you are always testing me.”
Zander’s exhale skates across my lips. “It would be a lot easier if you didn’t react the way you do to me.” “I can’t help it.” “Neither can I anymore, it would seem.”
An immortal key caster. You can create with your caster affinities and manipulate with your elven affinity. There has never been another one like you in our realm.”
The walls you’ve built around yourself to survive are far too thick.
“You’ve done everything wrong. You are hotheaded, you speak out of turn and do the opposite of what we agreed to, you antagonize me as if you have no fear of consequence. You continue to lie and deceive me. Your heart bleeds too much for the plight of mortals, and you seem willing to challenge anyone who doesn’t bleed the same.” He sighs, his hazel eyes settling on me, a brilliant kaleidoscope of gold in the setting sun. “You do everything wrong, and yet everything right.”
I enjoy playing his queen, the one he comes to at night, the one he wakes to in the morning, unclothed and welcoming.
