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Inflating his power with your blood. There is nothing to be gained by the throne of lies he sits on. Your mother would not have wanted this.”
I was not hiding behind a mask; I was its willful prisoner.
I did not become the General of my father’s army because of the closure of the Veil of Seven. I fought for what was left after the King of Novear destroyed the veil, to conquer a realm that was not entirely his.
“The only fealty I have sworn is to the Solstice Kingdom. Do not give me the opportunity to slander your father when you know I hold no loyalty to our king. Elias is not the only one who has had to watch you suffer.”
The King of Novear carved her back ruthlessly against the connection, solidifying the link between us that would anchor my soul to hers forever.
The Novear King had whispered my sentence as he dragged the spelled blade down my back—the King of Solstice would find me and kill me.
‘The Gods allowed our people to suffer at my hands, but it was you, Sabine, who allowed them to suffer their fate by disobeying me. Let this be a lesson for you, daughter—there will be no God to save you. We can only save ourselves, and in the end, we will still burn for it.’
the only thing my father had ever done right when he prevented the Gods’ return to our realm. He wanted to become one, and I wanted them to never exist. Anything touched by the Gods, even magic, did not outweigh their selfish act of creation.
The King of Novear owned this woman’s magic. Trapped her free will in a barbaric form of treason all other kingdoms upheld despite our differences. A siphoning crystal was an enslavement of power. The sorcerer forced to wear the crystal beneath their skin was at the mercy of the owner’s control—the complete and utter loss of mine. This torture she endured was different.
A sorcerer’s bond created a magical bridge to ignite the merge of each other’s powers and intertwine the two souls together upon marriage—consummated by blood, body, and soul. In an unformed bond, the risk of power depletion became deadlier in consequence as the threads of fate fully weaved the sorcerers together.
The sorcerer’s bond could not begin to truly form if she was enslaved to another, and her injuries the King of Novear had meticulously placed along her body could not heal unless the crystal was removed.
“Her name is Sabine Azterrin.” “That’s impossible,” Kane muttered. “She lives,”
The Princess of the Novear Kingdom had died. An entire city burned to the ground by their king, along with the sorcerers who had rallied to fight against her father after he destroyed the Veil of Seven. She was supposed to be dead.
“The same way the Gods allowed him to kill my mother through a siphoning spell.”
“Relieved?! I—I could lose control. I—” “Is that really what he told you after placing that crystal in your neck? Hmm? He shouldn’t have been able to do that to anyone, let alone a child. I saw everything. The moment he had forced it within you as I ripped it apart.” He spoke with a fury I could not comprehend, only to silence it with one sentence. “What has he been hiding underneath that you are so afraid of?” A part of me feared he already knew the answer. “You do not know what you’ve done,” I rasped.
Power was not synonymous with invincibility. I gave myself away like my body was dismantled, because it was the only thing I knew how to do. To give away my magic so I did not hurt anyone else but me and yet somehow, I had failed at that, too.
She is barely hanging on as we speak. The lack of connection from the bond might tear her apart if we do not follow through with the bindings. You have never been sick like this a day in your life, even with walking around being sliced open from your father.”
Any man who wanted power from me would have to beg on his hands and knees for it.
May the Gods bless the Prince and Princess of the Solstice Kingdom, for you are now a pair of sorcerers bonded.”
He went still within the erratic movement of his shadow behind him, as if it were alive.
I dislike liars, Prince.” I always have because I was the biggest one of them all.
The Prince of Solstice walked over to the bed, throwing the sheets off in disarray with intention before he let it drip slowly onto the mattress.
I have killed men with my bare hands with more confidence, yet waiting for this woman to speak to me made my vision dust with stars.
I lied to her, and I vowed to keep it like it was the truth. The sorcerer’s bond would remain unfinished, but it was enough to sustain her life. I would force the fates to make it enough, no matter how deadly.
His mouth parted slightly. “You can see it?”
“No one has ever seen my shadow before.”
“This is not something that you can mention to anyone,”
I was going to rip every bone out of her attacker’s body one by one and force them to remain alive to feel the blood leave their arteries. The fire in my veins charred as I materialized into the air, fueling my attack— On a frog?
I had never seen a goddess up close, but I found one in front of me.
“And what am I to do with this apple?” “Ask me to share it with you. Woo me, if you will.”
“There is no weakness in your training, Commander, for I would know. What I do know is that you have clearly never battled one on one with a lightbringer. For if you did. . .you would have never stepped inside this ring. I can control the very light that allows you to see.”
‘This is how we will tell each other, brother. I do not need more from you. Stop. Giving. Too. Much.’ He stifled a broken sob, but his voice did not waver. ‘This is my promise to you.’
No amount of power can corrupt what lies beneath.”
‘The Volkan warriors accepted you as an honorary member after defeating Kane in the ring. You are the first sorcerer to be inducted who does not wield fire, and you and I are also the only sorcerers in the history of the Volkans married within the creed. Isn’t that something?’
I love him
It was the stars who believed in the dark when the earth had feared it, but it was darkness that made the stars shine the brightest—together they found a home in each other’s orbit.
I was going to have to kill them. Every single one, if they saw my wife right now.
I guess I could replace them. . .but it would be highly difficult.
I wonder how pissed Kane is going to be if I have to make him train a new battalion. It might not be that bad—a
“I would give anything,” I whispered, fading into the night. To see you smile like that again.
If I was forced to have sex with Keahi Aldeer every night for an entire month because of some ritual to satisfy the kingdom, I suppose it would not be torturous. . .Oh Gods.
“Sabine can’t know.” My breath trembled when I found the bottle was already empty in my hand. “She can’t know that I want her so badly; I needed her to hate me right then. I thought I could do it. . .but I just can’t. That fucking dress—”
Keahi’s lower lip quivered against the sharp exhale of his breath. “Did I do something wrong?”
Keahi :(
“Sabine, I know I might not be what you want, but I could try if you wanted me to. I swear if you just give me a chance—”
MY BABIES
Keahi would never be safe with me because revenge would always be my first choice.
“I’m sure that even the Gods fear you, Sabine.”
“You will have to forgive me again, more often than you would like, but please know it is your happiness in the end that I want. Even if it is with someone else.” I did not want anyone else, but I could not have him either.
I could feel him, too. The way his soul was on fire, and I was not afraid to burn.
War was haunting, death was hollow, but vengeance was retribution.
Elias should have exposed my truth.
His daughter, General of Novear, was no longer his to wield.
