The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

by Elizabeth Lim

“A promise is not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care,” I murmured to myself. “It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”

“Yet you act as though he’s the one who gave you a piece of his heart.

“You’d do well to remember this: your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”

“Then I’ll have to find you when you’re reborn—before your strands have time to knot with his again.”

When you look into the sea, think of me sometimes.” “I will,” I said softly.

“Then laugh,” he said in all seriousness. “I’ve missed the sound of you.”

It was a kiss worth waiting for—whether half a year or half a lifetime—a kiss that made my breath catch and my stomach swoop,