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December 18 - December 23, 2022
“Loving someone. Losing them. Then becoming something even worse than Kolis.”
“Because why would you want that from me—want more— when you know I’m incapable of giving you what you deserve.” “And what is it that I deserve?” “Someone who loves you, unconditionally and irrevocably. Someone who had the courage to allow themselves to feel that,”
“Do you love him?” The floor felt as if it shifted under my feet. Love? Nyktos? My mouth opened, but I couldn’t find any words to speak. Rhain tilted his head back. “I…I think I was wrong about you.”
My heart. I…I loved him. I loved Nyktos?
“I want to be Nyktos’s Consort,” I blurted out. “I want it more than I think I’ve ever wanted anything…”
He wasn’t Nyktos. He never had been. He was Ash, and I… I was in love with him.
“Rise for the One who is born of Blood and Ash, the Light and the Fire, and the Brightest Moon,”
“What do you feel?” “I don’t know.” He sounded confounded, curious. “I…I taste sweetness.” His brows pinched. “It reminds me of chocolate and strawberries.” “And you don’t know what that is?” “I don’t,”
“I wish…” Voice thickening, he trailed off into the darkness, never finishing what he’d been about to say. Telling me what he wished for.
“Even if you had your kardia, Ash, there was no guarantee you’d love me—” “Yes, there is.” His eyes were wide and wild as he caught my wrists. “I would’ve loved you if I could have. There would’ve been no stopping me.”
“I wish…” he whispered hoarsely, dragging his fingers across the freckles sweeping over my cheek. “I wish I’d never had my kardia removed.”
“I never wanted to love. Not until you, liessa.”
“The Primal of Blood and Ash…” A shudder of disbelief coursed through me. A being that should not exist. “A Primal of Life and Death.”
To a wolf. A wolf crouched at the trunks of the trees. A wolf more silver than white. A silver beast. Bathed in the brightest moonlight. Ash.
