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August 1 - August 3, 2025
“That feels good,”
“You feel good, too.”
She meant to say, For tonight, I’m yours, but all that came out was “I’m yours.”
holding her to him as if touching were a form of breathing.
He swallowed hard and clenched his jaw. “You have no idea what I’m feeling now.” He looked at her lips, and the most tortured expression she’d ever seen crossed his face.
as if he wanted to destroy her and make her his queen all at once.
But then Jacks picked her up. She clung to him and buried her head in his shoulder.
His face had all the agony of a fallen star, broken and beautiful, with eyes so blue, the color of everything else looked dull.
“What about you? Will we ever meet?” “No.”
Jacks was the Archer from The Ballad of the Archer and the Fox.
She hadn’t wanted that to be Jacks’s story—she wanted to be his story.
She would forget that he’d been Jacks of the Hollow, and the Archer, and, for the span of one night, hers.
Trust me, Evangeline. If you care about Jacks, the best thing you can do for him is let him go.”
He held her with the type of intensity that only happens when a person wants something that isn’t quite theirs.