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Holly Renee
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October 19 - October 19, 2025
She was on the brink of death, but we would slowly nurse her back to life. It was a cycle that had to continue until I was completely ready to claim the power she held. The power I would gain from killing my mate.
She was my mate, and I failed her. She had chosen me over everything. She had chosen me even though she knew the truth of me delivering her father to Queen Kaida so many years ago. The bond inside me that laced the two of us together felt taut and strained with the ache of the two of us being apart. I had given her every reason not to, but she still chose me.
She had given me her magic without taking a moment to think of what the consequences would be.
But there wasn’t a force strong enough in this world or the next that could stop me from loving her.
They thought I was their savior, but I would be no such thing. I would be their destruction.
“The Blood kingdom is my home.” I turned to look at her once more with my fingers digging into the wood of the door. “And the Blood prince is my mate. If you are to fear anything, it should be me. You should fear what I am willing to do to get it all back.”
“Your brother didn’t take from me. I gave. And there’s nowhere on my body you can touch that hasn’t already been claimed by him.”
She was my mate, and she would come home.
“Get your hands off my mate.” Evren’s voice boomed through the garden, a demand to not be mistaken, as he stormed through the double doors with a blood-soaked sword in his hand.
When she looked at these scars, I didn’t want her to think of him. I wanted her to think of me and how my love for her was something I had waited a lifetime for. I would have waited a hundred lifetimes to get to her.
She was the most spectacular thing I had ever seen, and just sitting here in the tub with her, being allowed to touch any part of her, it was a blessing I would never take for granted again.
“I want you,” she whispered. “I want to remember nothing but you.”
“It’s always only been you.”
“You have me. For this lifetime and any that come after.”
“I want to erase every trace of him. When you wake tomorrow, I want your body to ache with memories of me and me alone.”
“The gods made you for me. Made your body for me to worship.”
“You are mine,”
“My perfect fucking mate.”
“You have no idea how badly I want to make you my wife.”
“You’re making me lose every bit of control I hold, princess.”
“Bury your hand in your sex and show me how much this turns you on.”
Yet, I had been waiting my entire lifetime for you.
“Is for your blessing in marrying your daughter.”
“I have done nothing but fail you, princess. I failed you when I broke your trust. I failed you when I let you go with my brother, and I failed you again when I allowed him to get so close to you that he was able to lay your mother on our doorstep.”
“I don’t deserve you, princess, but I will also never let you go. I am not strong enough to let you go.”
“I want nothing more than to make you my wife.”
“You are bound in this world and the one beyond.”
“An unbreakable vow bound to you forevermore.”
“I want that memory burned into my mind forever. My wife, with your perfect fucking wedding dress hiked up over your hips while I take you from behind.”
This man before me. My husband. My mate.
“Say it.” He licked his lips. “Tell me you’re my wife.”
“You were made for me, princess, and I, you.”
Evren stared down at where he had just fucked me, and his fingers pressed against my center. I surged forward, still so sensitive, but his fingers were gentle. He gathered the moisture there, the mixture of him and me, and he slid a finger back inside me.
“I love seeing me drip out of you.”
“Taste how fucking good we are together.”
we kill him, and he will never touch my wife again.”
“I’d like for you to meet my wife, Adara Achlys, Princess of the Blood kingdom.”
lips. I hadn’t wanted to say it out loud for dread it would be true. “I have searched for you through a thousand lifetimes, princess, and I will search for you through a thousand more.”
“I love every little thing about you.”
“You will never lay another finger on my wife. I do not care that you were willing to give up your own mate. You will never touch mine again.”
“The stars chose you, Adara Achlys. It was always you.”
