The Inadequate Heir (The Bridge Kingdom, #3)

by Danielle L. Jensen

“Peace is like a dance,” he said softly. “It only works if both partners are listening to the same music.”

“If I had the choice to be anywhere in the world, I would choose right here.”

“You told me once that if you truly believe in something, you should be willing to suffer for it. To die for it. Well, I think that if you truly believe in something, you should live for it.”

“Why is it different?” He exhaled softly. “Because watching you jump was the most terrifying moment of my life.”

“Not here, Valcotta,” he murmured. “If I’m going to have you, it will be somewhere I can do it properly and without interruption.”

“You really ought to spend more time in the sun.” A slow smile rose to his face. “But all the best things happen at night.”

“I want everything.” Everything that she’d denied herself for so long. Everything that hadn’t been possible until she’d met him. “Then everything you shall have.”

What was happening between them was forbidden. There was no possible future in it.

“I do want to remake the world so that I can be with you. So that I can get down on my knees and ask you to be my wife. So that I can put a crown on your head and make you my queen. So I can build a shrine and worship you as my goddess. I want all of these things, yet I face a future with none of them, and I don’t know whether I want to fall on my own blade or burn everything to ash because I do not want to let you go.”

“A lifetime wouldn’t be enough. Eternity wouldn’t be enough. Not when I want to map every star in the sky with you in my arms.”

“There is nothing I wouldn’t give you,” he said softly. “Nothing I wouldn’t do for you.”

“I love you, Valcotta. I will have you or I will have no one, because where you go, my heart goes with you.”