The Unseelie Throne (Maze of Shadows #3)

by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

The whole idea of beginnings was a foolish concept. Things did not begin or end. They looped, if nothing else. Life led to death, death led to life, the seasons cycled, the sun circled the sky with the moon as the other half of its pair.

“And I do not wish to kill Valroy for the same reasons you suffer him as a friend. For there is a strange something to him that I should find repulsive, and yet I do not.”

How could she kill him? How could she bring herself to drive a knife into his heart? Titania was wrong. She did not have the strength to go through with the deed. No matter how tiresome she claimed she would come to find the prince.

“Why so dour, little witch?” A wing talon grabbed the back of her chair and dragged her a foot closer to him. “I hate to see you so very glum.”

He could kiss her right now, and she would not resist him. But he wanted her to kiss him. What was wrong with him? What had she done to him?

“You are trying to destroy two worlds. I should not feel this way about a man who wishes such death and destruction. I can accept that you are Unseelie. I can accept the cruelty that is your nature. But all that death? I will find a way to stop you.”

“I find your sadness hurts me as if it were my own. Your death…I thought a piece of me died with you that day, and I would never get it back.”

I will protect you. I will love you. I will set the sky aflame for you. But I cannot change who I am. I cannot change what I was made to be. Not even for you. And my heart will shatter to pieces for it.