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The king knew, in this moment, that his greatest love would also be his ruination, and that both would come in the unlikely form of a young human woman.
Maybe the king always knew that his greatest love would be his ruination. Maybe he knew it the moment he met her. He’d know it the second time he died, too.
My husband smiled at me, lowering his raised fist, which had indeed been ready to knock one more fucking time. “There she is.”
The first time in weeks I’d seen something that looked like fight in her eyes. Goddess, I could’ve fucking wept for it. There she is, I thought.
Mother, I had missed anger. I embraced it now like welcoming an old lover back into my arms.
It was all her. Deadly and stunning. Even her hatred was fucking beautiful.
Even I had to draw a line somewhere. And you’re the line, Oraya.”
“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.”
“Just want you to know, Oraya,” he murmured, “that you were the best part of it. The best part of all of it.”
Raihn. My downfall and my most valuable supporter. My weakness and my strength. My worst enemy and the greatest love I had ever known.
