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August 7 - August 14, 2025
And when I saw the wolf, I’d thought he’d come for me. That I would see him, touch him one last time, have the chance to tell him once more that I loved him. That I’d get to say goodbye on my terms. But I didn’t see him in the doorway now. He wasn’t there. What if he’d never been there?
I don't think she was hallucinating...but I don't see why Ash would just leave her, unless he made a deal?
“She will be lost,” Attes cut in. “Your graeca will be beyond your reach.”
Okay, so Attes definitely is in on some sort of plan. I already had my suspicions, but why else would he be determined to keep her alive right now?
A sharp swirl of prickles broke out along the nape of my neck.
I noticed this with Casteel too...why the neck??
“From your father,” Kolis interjected, moonlight reflecting off the golden band around his biceps. “And I imagine you believe history has repeated itself, but you’d be wrong. The embers of life do not belong to you.” “She does not belong to you!” Ash roared.
😭😭
Bodies floated, some face-up, others on their bellies. Dozens of them just…bobbed in the now-still waters.
DANG
so’lis.”
oop?? future kingdom name??
“That was you? The hawk in the Dying Woods?”
!!!
“It’s from the oldest of our language. Toria had a few meanings. One meant garden. Another could be loosely translated into pretty flower.” He smiled then, but no dimple appeared, and I couldn’t help but think of what Sotoria had been doing when she died. She’d been picking flowers. “But a more exact translation is poppy.”
whaaaat
I suppose love made you capable of that: wanting happiness for another, even if it meant them finding it with someone else.
“I’m here, Ash.” He shuddered. “So don’t miss me.” I touched his jaw, feeling the slight stubble there. “Love me instead.” “I do,” Ash swore. “Fates, Sera, I do.”
❤️❤️❤️
“Yeah.” Kyn’s smile widened, showing his fangs as the embers thrummed. “Yeah, I’ll take her.”
DISGUSTING! I had hope he would have a redemptive moment, but absolutely not. cancel him!
“It’s not every day that one learns their sister has truly returned to them.”
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! WHAT
“I can’t argue with that descriptor,” I said. “But if the shoe fits, lace that bitch up and wear it.”
LOL
I didn’t know how long I knelt there, panting as I willed my nausea to settle.
Is she vomiting from anxiety or is she pregnant 👀
“What I’m about to say next doesn’t change what I told you before.” The eather swirled in his eyes. “You’re brave, strong, and resilient. You don’t need anyone to fight your battles. You never have. You don’t now.” My chest rose and fell rapidly as I listened to him. “But I will fight for you. I will free you. And if that takes me laying waste to everything and everyone in Dalos, then so be it,” he swore as my heart stuttered. “Nothing will stop me.”
❤️❤️
“I’m nothing without you, liessa,” he whispered as he started to slip away, and the embers hummed in my chest. “And there will be nothing without you.”
“Because where else would I place such a beautiful stone than where I keep what I cherish the most?” My stomach churned at his response, but I managed a smile. “May I hold it?”
this would've been romantic if Nyktos had said it
here with and fast. Like perhaps Setti?” “I think you just want to ride my horse,” Attes remarked,
is he connected to Cas through the horse?
“I don’t want you using the embers.” “Ash—” “Not for him. Not even for me. I will not have you risking your health and—” His voice…gods, it cracked. And so did my heart. Eather whipped through his irises. “I will not risk you.”
😭😭😭
“It’s pretty hidden away.” Silvery eyes pierced mine as I looked over my shoulder at him. “I’m not sure a single mortal has ever stumbled upon it.”
OMG is this the cavern that Cas takes Poppy to??
“I disagree. You would’ve found a way.” Ash leaned in, kissing me softly. “And I’m confident enough in my strength to admit that.” Liking—no, loving—that he didn’t feel less capable due to my capability, I smiled against his mouth.
JLA please keep this energy!
“I…I’ve heard the legends of such.” I thought of my parents. “But that can’t be it,” I said before he could. “Then how is it possible?” An emotion flickered across his face—too fast for me to decipher. “It could be because we’ve shared blood. That could be common among those who’ve experienced what we did.”
Ash definitely knows the truth. he's hiding something.
had no idea why I was so freaking emotional all the time.
im willing to bet she's preggers
“I think it was more like his sheer will made it so you woke up,” Nektas continued. His sheer will? “And is waking up in the arms of the one you care so deeply for a waste of time? There is nothing I would not give to have one more moment with Halayna.” My breath snagged at the raw honesty and lingering pain in his voice. I twisted toward Ash. “I don’t think any extra time with you is a waste. I wasn’t thinking.” “I know.” Ash cupped my cheek.
not Nektas being a marriage counselor
Sotoria’s parting words lingered. We will meet again.
when she comes back as Poppy!!
The idea of children had never been a part of my future. But as my gaze traveled over Ash’s face, I would’ve…I thought I would’ve entertained that with him. He would’ve made an amazing father.
🥲
“We don’t have to do this,” he said, his voice thick and rough. “Having you here and in my arms, kissing you? It’s enough.” Oh, gods, he was going to make me cry.
“You can have that all you want,” he bit out. “After.”
He's definitely got something planned.
“Your voice is a balm.”
“I never wanted until you.”
☹️
Calmed as I always was by the lake, my heart rate slowed.
OMG is the lake somehow where his cardiac rests??
That you were the impossible. The one thing that could return a kardia, scratching itself together from the wound its removal left behind. My heartmate.”
In the shadows, something moved—two of them. Smaller, their coats darker. My attention shifted back to the large feline. Our eyes locked, and I saw… I saw me looking back.
her future?
I didn’t know what I’d expected to find, but it wasn’t—in a hundred years—the answer to where all the hair ties had gone after Ash unbound my hair. Now, I knew. They were all in this box.
“You’re…you’re simply my first, Sera, and you will be my last.”
