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October 2 - October 22, 2025
And at long last … she did. She remembered.
His body had been rigid and tense, as if he really didn’t want her there, and yet his arms were tight around her waist as though he had no intention of ever letting her go.
she’d finally admitted to herself that she was hopelessly in love with him.
She’d been in love with him for quite some time. Evangeline wasn’t sure if that part was a memory or just a thought she was presently having.
I want to erase every moment you and I have spent together, every word you’ve said to me, and every time I’ve touched you, because if I don’t, I’ll kill you, just like I killed the Fox.
She knew that Jacks had killed the Fox and that he believed that he would someday kill Evangeline as well.
She’d begged him to go with her, but he’d chosen to let her go instead. He’d told her, I just want you to leave.
Deep down she knew Jacks cared for her. She believed he wanted her. But she also knew that he was so afraid of killing her, he was never going to choose her. He believed he’d already found his true love and it wasn’t Evangeline.
She was still in love with Jacks, and yet both past and present Evangeline felt as if they’d lost him.
But Evangeline needed to find Jacks. She needed to explain that she had remembered. And she had to tell him that she loved him.
When she looked at Jacks’s actions, most of them seemed to say he loved her, too. He kept coming back, kept protecting her. But he also kept leaving her.
understood why Jacks had been so quick to incapacitate him. Jacks had been protecting her. He was always protecting her.
Lucien, the impostor heir to the throne as well. Warn them that he’s a vampire and he has gone on a killing spree.”
She needed to look like a girl without her memories and not like a girl who’d just heard her lying, deceptive husband accuse her first love of murder.
“Do you not think I could help build?” “I merely think there are better uses for you, my sweet.” “Like what?” Aurora chimed in. “I think building sounds ghastly, but isn’t that what we’re all here to do? Do you fear your wife is so fragile she might hurt herself if she swings a hammer?” Apollo clenched his jaw. “I did not say my wife was fragile.” “Then perhaps you shouldn’t treat her that way or laugh at her wishes,” said Aurora. Something dark flashed in Apollo’s eyes.
ATEEEEEEEEEEE
he had seen the way that she had looked at Jacks after he’d stormed into the room to rescue her. As if Jacks was her savior, her hero.
But fires could too easily get out of control, and she didn’t want to hurt anyone. Unless it was Apollo. She did want to hurt him.
Did Jacks teach you anything, or was it just an excuse to put his hands around you?” LaLa waggled her brows. Evangeline’s cheeks turned very warm. “He taught me a few things … but mostly it was a lot of his arms around me.”
If he hurts you, you let me know and I will happily hurt him even more.
“If anything could spark a change in Jacks, I think it could be his feelings for you,” said LaLa eventually. “But you still need to be careful. Because even his feelings are dangerous.”
I am Jacks’s true love. I believe it with the same confidence that I believe that water fills the oceans and morning follows the night. I believe it with all my heart and soul. And there has to be some sort of magic in that.”
“I know my faith in love might appear foolish. I also know it might not be enough. But I’m not doing this because I believe I’ll win. I’m actually a little afraid I’m going to lose. I no longer think love is a guarantee of victory or of happily ever after. But I think it’s a reason
to fight for those things. I know my attempt to save Jacks could end in a fiery explosion, but I’d rather go up in flames with him than watch while he burns.”
“To foolish hearts and fire! May you and Jacks only ever burn with passion and desire.”
But all those things didn’t scare her as much as the idea of Jacks deciding that he didn’t want to love her back.
she was now thinking about how he’d called her pet twice. Not Little Fox, not Evangeline.
“We need to leave before Jacks tries to kill you again.”
“Do not come near this tree again or it will be the last thing you do.”
“Everyone has two different hearts,” Chaos said. “There is the heart that beats and keeps you alive. Then there is the other heart, the second heart, the one that breaks instead of beats, the one that loves so that there is a point to all this living. This is the heart that my sister wanted.”
Lyric Merrywood was the one who loved her, but I always thought my sister was with him just as a pretext to be near Jacks, who never even looked her way.
But Aurora enjoyed being the object of desire. She liked having both Lyric’s and Vengeance’s attentions, and I think she kept hoping it would make Jacks jealous.
“Of course it all went wrong. I don’t think it ever occurred to Aurora that after she left Vengeance he’d come after Lyric and raze the entirety of the Merrywood lands. But that’s the problem with my sister. She never thinks things through, and I know she’s not thinking now.”
She remembered.
My sister, Vesper, finally had a vision of Jacks’s future. “He’ll fall in love with a Fox,” she said. “What do you mean, a fox?” I asked.
“Do you think this means Aurora put both curses on Jacks—the Archer’s curse, and the curse that made his kiss fatal?”
“Aurora took Jacks’s heart. I think that falls under the rule of If I can’t have him, then no one else can.”
A little fox, for my Little Fox. I won’t warn you again. Jacks “I hate him a little right now,” Evangeline said. “At least it’s not a person,” said LaLa. “But it will be soon. That’s what this note is really saying.”
Her violet hair was disheveled, her face was pale, and there was a great bruise forming at her temple. “If you’re here for Jacks’s heart, you’re not going to find it. You’re already too late.”
“What did you do? Why did Jacks fall for you?” “Well, she’s not a raging bitch like you,”
You’re the reason he killed the first girl he loved, the one who turned into a fox.” “Yes, but I’m not the reason for this.”
“Once Jacks finishes destroying his heart, he’ll be back and he’ll kill more than just a wild fox.”
“Love is nothing to laugh at.” “It is today. Because you see, Evangeline, even if you save Jacks’s heart, it’s not going to be enough to save you. If you ever kiss him, you will die. It doesn’t matter if your love is the truest love that the world has ever seen.”
“When I realized Jacks was never going to kill the fox girl, I put another spell on him,” Aurora said. “But the story curse twisted the truth of it. It’s not Jacks’s true love who will be immune to his kiss and make his heart beat again. Only a girl who will never love Jacks can survive the kiss. Maybe your love can save his heart, but if you decide to kiss him, you’ll just be one more fox that Jacks has murdered.”
Jacks had been the moon and she’d been the tide, controlled by his impossible force. That much had not changed. Heart or no heart, she still wanted Jacks to be hers. But this Jacks wasn’t hers.
“I love you, Jacks.”
“I used to wonder if fate was real,” she said gently. “I used to fear it meant that I had no real choices. Then I secretly hoped fate was real and that you and I were fated, that by some miraculous chance I was your true love. But now I don’t care if fate is real—because I don’t need it to decide for me. I don’t need it to make this choice. I’ve made my decision, Jacks. It’s you. It will always be you, until the end of time. And I’ll fight fate or anyone else who tries to tear us apart—including you. You are my choice. You are my love. You are mine. And you are not going to be the end of me,
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“I think I already am.” He opened his eyes and they dripped red tears. “Let me go, Evangeline.”
“Tell me you won’t set fire to your heart, and I will let you go.” “Don’t ask me to do that.” “Then don’t ask me to let you go!” His eyes bled more tears, but his hand held tight to the jar. “I’m broken. I like to break things. Sometimes I want to break you.” “Then break me, Jacks.” His fingers tensed against her neck. “For once I want to do the right thing. I can’t do this. I can’t watch you die again.” The word again scraped against her like a thorn. “What do you mean, again?” “You died, Evangeline.” Jacks pulled her closer until she could feel the ragged rise and fall of his chest as he
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“It was only you and Chaos,” he whispered. “As soon as his helm was off, he killed you. I tried to stop him—I tried to save you—but—” Jacks opened and shut his mouth as if he could barely get the words out. “I couldn’t. When I got there, he had already bitten you—and he’d already taken too much blood. You died as soon as you were in my arms. The only thing I could do was use the stones to turn back time. I was warned that it would cost me something. But I thought it would cost me. I didn’t imagine it would take from you.” I’m sorry, he thought. “You don’t need to be sorry, Jacks.” “It’s my
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I cant broooo
“I am living, Jacks, and I am not going to die anytime soon.” Evangeline closed her eyes and then she kissed him. It was a kiss like a prayer, quiet, almost pleading, made of tremulous lips and nervous fingers. It felt like reaching out in the dark, hoping to find a light. Jacks’s lips were slightly sweet and metallic, like apples and bloody tears as he whispered against her mouth, “You shouldn’t have done that, Little Fox.” “It’s too late now.” She wrapped her hands around his neck, drawing him closer as she parted her lips. Slowly the tip of Jacks’s tongue slipped inside. It was
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS
