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“One of us took the Sun from the Moon. We took the queen of darkness’s hope, her one redeeming quality—the guiding remembrance that she is not all shadow.” He placed the coin carefully in the centre of the table. “Elara’s light is gone. She has nothing to save her. Nothing to hold her back. It is not him we should fear. It is her.”
Elara’s eyes were hollow as she looked at them both and replied. “Half of my soul is gone. There is no rest for me.”
“You are half of my soul. Do you think I can’t feel when you’re lying to me?”
“I won’t pity you. Instead, I will ask you this. Where is your anger, Elara? Where is your fire?”
“The Stars took it. They took you.”
“Then rage about it,” he hissed onto her lips. “Pluck them from the sky like you promised you would. You turned the world to darkness for me and then got lost within it yourself. Your tears will do me no good. Neither will your grief. What I need back is my Elara. The one who burned down Leone’s temple and choked Gem with her shadows. The one who swore and fought and defied me at every turn. Because without your rage, El, without your vengeance, I will be lost. That is the truth of it though you won’t dare admit it. I will waste away in here. So hunt Eli. Give him a warning. And make him seek
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You knew I was possessive when you met me. Don’t try to deny how I feel now.”
“I will tear the world apart to bring you back.”
The Stars had ripped her dreams from her, forced her to live in a nightmare. And so, a nightmare she became.
“I loved her more than the day loves the Light, and she loved me more than the Dark loves the night.”
His eyes searched hers, and a passing thought murmured to him that this might not be such a bad way to die, with Elara in his arms. That if her eyes were the last thing he saw, it would be a better death than most.
That for the first time in twenty-six years he felt like he belonged, and that he was exactly where he should be, soaring through the air on the back of a dragun, his hands around a shadow princess’s waist.
‘She is who you’ve been looking for,’ it said. It was only a sentence. Seven words. And it was enough to scare him shitless.
This feeling, as though I’ve been searching for something through lifetimes and found it right here. Like we’ve met before. Like you have consumed my every moment, both waking and asleep, and I barely even know you, but it feels like I do. I’m afraid of what it means, that someone who I’ve been taught is the enemy my whole life is good and kind and makes me laugh against my will. That I think I’m falling in l—
“You will let me and my friends in. Or I will give life to the terrors that plague you. And you will wish and beg and scream, that you had just let the whore pass.”
“You think I’d pass up on the opportunity to save my beloved?” Something akin to envy roiled in Eli’s stomach. Love. What a concept. What a deep tragedy. “Ever the romantic, Elara.”
“You taught me how to love the darkness, how to welcome it. In the moments where I needed to run from my light you were there, ever patient. And I love you. I love you for making Elara who she is. I love you for taking her fear and pain when she couldn’t carry it alone. And most of all, I love you for allowing me to love you.”
“It is an honour to be loved by you,”
She nuzzled into his chest, feeling the drumbeat of his heart. It was the most beautiful music she had ever heard.
Love drove mortals to madness. It was a simple fact.
“Be my wife. I want to call you my wife, Elara. I want to throw you the wedding you deserve. I know it’s trivial. I know that our soul-tie is more than that. That we’re bound far deeper than just in ceremony. But the mortal part of me, the part that fell in love first, needs you in every sense, and what I need is to call you my wife.”
“So, Queen of Asteria, light in my darkness, Ruler of Stars and Skies, will you marry me?”
“Lorenzo, my Sun, it would be an honour to be your wife.”
Enzo, everything you touch turns to gold. And you took a sad, lonely girl, who had no faith in the world or in love, and made her shine.”
“How does a reader bare their soul, if not through which parts of a book moved them? You always wished to know what went on in my mind. Now you do.”
