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Fair. Such a word did not exist in this world of eternal gray.
My only companions, a lifeline and a bridge to adulthood, I’d handed myself over entirely to fiction and the tales and lore of other realms.
His words ricocheted through my mind like a warning. A warning I would ignore, even if it had been more blatant.
“You are the sweetest fucking nectar I’ve ever tasted.”
His smile was devastating.
The answer to my unasked question became clear in his absence. He wouldn’t have sought a creature as desperate and foolish as me if he wished to belong to someone in kind.
His woodsy caramel scent
A nameless changeling who’d spent her entire life cowering from a woman behind the pages of books.
“You have a musical laugh.”
“Like birdsong beneath the rain,”
Florian Hellebore evoked a violent blend of hunger and curiosity. An unquenchable need to get as close as possible and burrow deep beneath his skin.
My future belonged to him. My fate had been sealed the moment I’d first laid eyes on him. Perhaps, warned a quiet voice, even long before then.
I wanted no part of this war. I wanted to live without being used by scheming males. I wanted to breathe without feeling the burn of betrayal and missing someone I never should have wanted.
