The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King (Crowns of Nyaxia, #2)

by Carissa Broadbent

There she is.

Mische said softly, “You don’t have to be fine.”

“I’d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it.”

“You have nothing but me,” I said. “And yet, you’d let me go?” “I have nothing but you,” he murmured. “So I am letting you go.”

“Let me make you the queen that you are. Let me guard your body, your soul, your heart. Let me spend the rest of my fucking pathetic life at your mercy. If I need to die, then let me do it by your hand. Please.”

“Give them fucking hell,”

“I just—I need you to know that. I love you, Oraya.”