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The king did not know then that his greatest love would also be his ruination—nor that either would come in the form of a tiny, helpless human child.
And love, understand, is sharper than any stake.
“I’ve lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
“That wasn’t how I’d imagined making you come for the first time,” he remarked. I stopped chewing.
Strange, that girls are so often told that the loss of their virginity marks a threshold between girlhood and womanhood, as if it fundamentally alters them in some way. It was not the sex that changed the girl forever. Not the blood that spilled between her thighs that shaped her. The blood that spilled over that marble floor, though… Those are the stains on one’s innocence that never fade.
