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She tilted her head. “You’re the first Maridrinian to ever call my presence a favor of fate.” He smirked. “With a face like yours, I cry false. I’m sure you leave half-cocked Maridrinian corpses everywhere you go, Valcotta.”
It was a forgotten joy, reading for pleasure.
When was the last time she’d done something for no reason other than it made her happy?
“No matter what the future brings, know that you hold my heart.”
Of all the stars mapped in her mind, his burned the brightest.
It amazed her that these men, trained soldiers, didn’t see the truth. When she watched Keris move, she immediately saw the raw strength in the press of muscle against his embroidered coat. The balance and grace in every step that came from a lifetime on rooftops. The swift instincts of one who might choose not to fight but was more than capable of doing so. But it was his intelligence that made him a force to be reckoned with.
His breath brushed her ear, sending a tickle of sensation through her that made her shiver. Made her ache. “I do want to remake the world so that I can be with you. So that I can get down on my knees and ask you to be my wife. So that I can put a crown on your head and make you my queen. So I can build a shrine and worship you as my goddess. I want all of these things, yet I face a future with none of them, and I don’t know whether I want to fall on my own blade or burn everything to ash because I do not want to let you go.”
“It’s not enough.” His hand slid down her back, curving over her ass and jerking her closer. “A lifetime wouldn’t be enough. Eternity wouldn’t be enough. Not when I want to map every star in the sky with you in my arms.”
“There is nothing I wouldn’t give you,” he said softly. “Nothing I wouldn’t do for you.”
“I love you, Valcotta. I will have you or I will have no one, because where you go, my heart goes with you.”
She gave him a tight nod, then allowed him to lower her down until his face was lost to the dim light, their locked hands their only connection. The memory of that first night on the dam filled her mind’s eye, Keris’s grip on her the only thing keeping her from plunging to certain death. Then, he’d been her enemy, but now … “I love you,” she said. “I will always love you.” Then she let go.
Excuse me whilst I go cry a river. 😭😭😭
