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“You know, I really shouldn’t be anywhere near you.” “Then maybe you should let me go,” I said evenly. “It would seem that I have to.”
“Did the spider steal your shirt?” “Most women wouldn’t complain.” “I see the breaking of your throne hasn’t damaged your ego.”
But my thoughts about Ava were their own kind of madness, and she’d already rendered me senseless.
“I already want to rip his lungs out and hang him from the castle gates, but if he forced himself on you, I will find a slower method of death.”
“Torin,” I said, “you are getting in this tub with me.” He glanced at me over his shoulder, his expression unreadable. “I…what?” “That took over twenty minutes. I’m not filling it again. And I’m not dealing with the guilt of taking the only bath. We were both tortured in the cells. We’ll both take a bath, facing in opposite directions.” His eyes danced. “If you really want to see me naked, changeling, you could just ask.” “It’s not like that.” I closed my eyes. “We will each face the opposite direction. I’ll face left, you right. It’s only practical.” “Whatever you want, changeling.”
“Ava, you are safe with me.” He brushed my hair back from my face, then lightly brushed his fingertips over my temple. “That animal left a bruise on you.”
“Now that,” he murmured into the crook of my neck, “sounds like a fucking challenge, changeling.”
will eviscerate that man someday. Do you
“Ava. I thought of you all the time in my cell. How much I wanted you next to me, your limbs entwined with mine.”
“A Seelie king hurries for no one. Especially when he has his absolutely bewitching enemy in bed, naked and wet for him.”
“Just a bad dream,” he said quietly. “You know, Ava, I only told Morgant that I didn’t care for you because I didn’t want them to use you against me. If they knew you were important to me…I don’t really want to imagine what they might have done.”
“In Faerie, I will freeze anyone that I love, Ava. I will kill anyone that I love. That’s what Queen Mab cursed me with. And that’s why you can’t come with me, my changeling.”
Somewhere in my soul dwelled a phantom life, one where Ava was my wife. One where she slept in the crook of my arm and kissed my neck. One where she peered over coffee at me across a morning-lit table. In my phantom life, she curled up on a bed to read a book next to me. But that was as tangible as smoke.
She couldn’t be my wife. Though, as my mind hollowed out, I couldn’t quite remember why…it was a stupid reason.
missed you, changeling.” “I’m going to get you out of here, Torin,” I whispered back. “Are you saving me?” A hint of amusement laced his deep tone.
“But if you return home, Ava, and you realize that you want someone to drive a sword through Andrew’s throat, please send word to me, will you? I do believe I can murder him without consequences.”
“Of course, I’ve thought you were beautiful since the first time I met you,” he said, “but it changed into something else when I saw you in the tournament, letting Eliza get hits in on you just to save her honor. You hardly knew her, and the Seelie hadn’t given you the warmest welcome…that was the moment I knew I was lost for you.
would tear my own kingdom apart for you if it meant we could be together.”
“Because there would be only one way to test it, changeling. I died for you once, and I would do it again…I’d rip through the realms to get to you again. But I will not put you at risk.”
As I raced toward the castle, I spied a figure with black wings like a moth’s. My world tilted. Ava, my love, what the fuck are you doing?
“Our enemies are dead, my love. The Seelie live for pleasure, not war. And with that in mind, changeling, I have been dreaming for a long time of feeding you apples in my room.”
