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July 27 - July 30, 2023
He did not need to start the war. But he would be the one who ended it.
He wondered if she would be so terribly upset with him if he assassinated the queen and put her upon the golden throne instead.
How much of my world would I let you destroy if it meant I could wake up with you by my side? All of it, I think.
She matched him perfectly. She just simply did not know it yet.
that was a line he would never cross. Not with anyone. Certainly not with her.
“Oh, Abigail…” he said through a husky breath. “How am I ever to say no to you?”
It had taken her a long time to understand that the person she saw, the beautiful thing in the reflection, was her. Valroy had only chuckled and kissed her cheek,
She went without fighting, and he wrapped his wing around her waist and held her to his side. Tilting her head to his with a crook of a finger, he kissed her, as if to reclaim what Cruinn had borrowed.
Her prince. Her betrothed.
He was safe to her. Him. The Bloody Prince. She took shelter from the others in his embrace.
“I believe I am falling in love with you, Prince Valroy.”
“You are…quite simply…the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.”
“Never shall I lie to you, my princess. My queen. My wife. Never. For while you play idle with your words…if you but once gazed upon me with betrayal in your eyes, I would not know how to live with myself.” He grinned. “That is a depth too low, even for me. No, my darling, sweet little Seelie witch. You have my loyalty, and my honesty, until the stars burn to dust.”
“See into the soul of me, my beloved, and know that it is yours.”
I lied to you. I am not falling for you. I think I am already quite gone.
“I believe I enjoy teasing you,” she murmured. “What a surprise.” “Lucky me,” he complained.
She was not his moon and stars. She was his sunlight. And he would cherish her for as long as he could. And come what may.
He could not believe it. After long last… He truly was the Unseelie King.
“But this body…it cannot be killed in this way.”
“A king will die this night, Titania.” The blade fell numbly from Valroy’s hands and dropped to the ground at his feet. He joined it a second later and found himself grinning up at the moonlit sky overhead. “But it shall not be me…”
