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“I’ll take care of you. Just…just live. Please live.”
“I don’t give a fuck what happens to me!” Xaden yells at someone. “We are going and that’s an order.”
“Live up to your nickname and fight this, Violence,”
“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.”
“You have to save her.”
It’s been three fucking days, and Violet hasn’t woken up. Three never-ending days I’ve spent in this armchair, walking a knife’s edge between sanity and madness, studying every rise and fall of her chest just to be sure she’s still breathing.
My lungs only fill when hers do, and the time between my heartbeats is filled with sharp, all-consuming fear.
She’s never looked frag...
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He can yell at me all he wants as long as her heart’s beating.
What I shouldn’t have done was fought my feelings for her. I should have grabbed on to her after that first kiss the way I wanted and kept her at my side, should have let her all the way in.
She can’t die, and not just because there’s a chance I won’t survive. She can’t die because I know I can’t live without her even if I do.
Somewhere between the shock of our attraction at the top of that turret to realizing she risked her own life by giving up a boot for someone else on the parapet that first day to her throwing those daggers at my head under the oak tree, I wavered. I should have realized the danger of getting too close the first time I put her on her back and showed her how easily she could kill me on the mat—a vulnerability I’ve allowed no one else—but I brushed it off as an undeniable attraction to a uniquely beautiful woman.
When I watched her conquer the Gauntlet, then defend Andarna at Threshing, I stumbled, stunned by both her cunning and her sense of honor. When I burst into her room and found Oren’s treacherous hand at her throat, the rage that made it so easy to kill all six of them without batting an eye should have told me I was headed for a cliff. And when she smiled at me after mast...
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We hadn’t even kissed, and I fell. Or maybe it was when she threw her knives at Barlowe or when jealousy ate me alive seeing Aetos kiss the m...
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Looking back, there were a thousand tiny moments that pulled me over the edge for the woman asleep in the...
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And I never t...
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“You’re awake.” My voice sounds like it’s been dragged across gravel when I thought it’d only been my heart.
I stagger to my feet and take the two steps that separate me from her bedside. She’s awake. She’s alive. She’s…smiling? That must be a trick of the light. This woman likely wants to set me on fire.
“You are miraculous,”
“I was fucking terrified, Violet. There aren’t adequate words.”
“I thought I was going to lose you.”
Gods, I’d kiss her forever if I thought it would keep the coming argument at bay,
that I haven’t irrevocably fucked up the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
“You aren’t going to lose me.”
She still wants me.
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.
“I’ll make it up to you,”
“I’m not saying we won’t fight or you won’t want to throw those daggers at me when I’m inevitably an ass, but I swear I...
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Brilliant. Fucking. Woman.
I can’t help it. I smile. This brilliant fucking woman is mine. Or was mine. Will be mine again if I have anything to say about it.
“I haven’t left you.”
“Kicking me out of my own room.”
She exists, and I get turned on.
Gods, I want to haul her into my arms and love her until she forgets everything except how good we are together, but I’m sure that’s the last thing she’ll ever want again.
“I’ve never lied to you, Violet. Not once. I never will.”
I love her. Of course I love her. But if I tell her now, she’ll think I’m saying it for all the wrong reasons, and honestly, she’d be right.
I’m not going to lose the only woman I’ve ever fallen for without a fight.
“It took me a long time to trust you, a long time to realize I fell for you.”
“I fell for you.”
“And you know what? You might not trust me anymore, but you still love me.”
Never again. Those eyes will never reflect hurt I’ve inflicted ever again.
“I fucked up by not telling you sooner, and I won’t even try to justify my reasons. But now I’m trusting you with my life—with everyone’s lives.”
“I’ll tell you anything you want to know and everything you don’t. I’ll spend every single day of my ...
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I’d forgotten what it felt like to be loved, really,...
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But then Violet gave me those words, gave me her trust, her heart, and I remembered. I’ll be damned i...
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“You still love me. It’s possible.” Gods, do I ache to kiss her, to remind her exactly what we are together, but I won’t, not until she asks.
“I’m not afraid of hard work, especially not when I know just how sweet the rewards are. I would rather lose this entire war than live without you, and if that means I have to prove myself over and over, then I’ll do it. You gave me your heart, and I’m keeping it.”
She already owns mine, even if she doesn...
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She’ll fight this war at my side.
Brennan just grins and opens his arms. “Welcome to the revolution, Violet.”
