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I hate how beautiful he is, how lethal his abilities make him as he strides toward me, shadows curling around his footsteps.
I’m tethered to Xaden Riorson.
His fingers are warm under my chin as he tilts my head up so our gazes collide. Wait…is that a hint of panic swirling in his?
He wraps my cloak around my shoulders and buttons it at my collar like I’m something precious.
An honest, heart-stopping smile that I’m anything but immune to.
“You are astonishing.” He shakes his head. “I couldn’t do that for weeks.”
“Kissing you would be a cataclysmic mistake.”
“You never considered that it was you I couldn’t stay away from?”
“Relax. It’s just me.” A ghost of a touch skims my cheek.
“Twenty-three,” he answers. “My birthday was in March.” And I didn’t even know. “Mine is in—” “July,” he answers with a ghost of a smile. “I know. I made it my business to know everything there was to know about you the second I saw you on the parapet.”
“He cares for you. That’s already hard enough for him.” I scoff. “He cares about keeping me alive. There’s a difference.” “Not for him there isn’t.”
“I’m proud you’re mine.” Andarna’s voice wavers, the blinks of her eyes becoming slower. “Even if I need a bath.”
Mine. In this moment, Xaden Riorson is mine.
“So. Very. Beautiful.” I punctate each word with a kiss.
Finding a jar on my nightstand with a handful of spring violets? My heart swells. I’m in so much fucking trouble.
There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, Violence.”
“I don’t deserve you.” His arm curls around my hips and he tugs me closer. “But I’m going to keep you all the same.”
I’m so wildly in love with you that I can’t imagine what my life would even look like without you in it. And I probably shouldn’t have said that, but if we’re doing this, then we’re starting from a place of complete honesty.”
I can’t stand the thought of you being cold.”
“There is no me without you,”
