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“He said one day there would be no magic left in the kingdom if we weren’t careful.”
“If you’d just man up and admit there’s something between us, I would strip down to my skin so you could see every single inch of me. And once I had you begging, I’d drop down to my knees, undo those flight leathers you’re wearing, and wrap my lips around—” Xaden chokes.
“You’re going to be the death of me.”
“I haven’t changed my mind, Violence. There’s no future for us.”
His touch is gentle when he cups my cheek.
I’m in love with Xaden.
“Gods help me, I’m only looking at you.”
ever want to bring me to my knees or win an argument, just let it down. I’ll get the point.”
“Wanting you will be the death of me. Let’s go.”
“You love me.”
“We made a choice to protect you—without your consent. It was an error, and one that I won’t make again.”
“You’ll feel the moment when you’ll know that there’s nothing to leave. And it might break your heart, but when you feel it, you fly. Promise me you’ll fly.” Heartbeats pass before Andarna finally nods.
Tairn puts us into position, hovering about twenty feet aboveground as Liam flies for the gryphons above us, wielding spears of ice into the injured wyvern’s throat. Blood streams as the wyvern falls from the sky with an ear-piercing cry.
“Thank you, Liam. Thank you for being my shadow. Thank you for being my friend.”
“There is no me without you,” he says against my skin.
But maybe there is a part of me that’s more like her than I care to admit.
But it was the third brother, who commanded the sky to surrender its greatest power, who finally vanquished his jealous sibling at a great and terrible price.
“Such untapped power. No wonder we were called here. You could command the sky to surrender all its power, and I bet you don’t know what to do with it, do you? Riders never do. I’m going to split you open and see where all that astonishing lightning comes from.” She waves the other dagger at me, and I realize she’s playing with me. “Or maybe I’ll let him do it. You’ll wish for death
“You have to fight, Vi,” Xaden whispers against my forehead as we move. “You can hate me all you want when you wake up. You can scream, hit, throw your fucking daggers at me for all I care, but you have to live. You can’t make me fall for you and then die. None of this is worth it without you.” He sounds so sincere that I almost believe him.
Sleep is where I hear her heartbreaking scream, hear her cry that Liam died, hear her call me a fucking traitor over and over.
Because I was scared to give her power over me when she already held it all?
We’ll have a lifetime of these moments ahead of us, when I can strip her down to her skin and worship every curve and hollow of her body, but this isn’t one of them, not when she’s barely been awake for five minutes.
We laid him to rest yesterday. Well, the others did. I haven’t left this room since we got here.”
