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He was gazing at me with a tenderness that was so acute I swear it looked like he was in pain.
He’s Apollo Ulfr of the House of Ulfr of the ice country of the north, Lunwyn.”
“A dove has great beauty, but is easily broken.”
“Just gazing on you, it feels like brands searing into my eyes.”
Eleven years ago, at twenty-two years old, working in an exclusive department store, I’d met Pol and made mistake after mistake after mistake that destroyed my life.
“House” in Lunwyn was a line of aristocracy.
There was Derrik, Achilles, Draven, Alek, Hans and Laures, There was also Remi and Gaston.
Their arrival would be two months later than when Apollo wanted them at the Ulfr stronghold of Karsvall.
‘Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. And not want it.’ That’s what he said. Word for word. I think that says pretty clear he doesn’t want me, don’t you?”
His daughter had been a year and a half when her mother had died. She was now six. She didn’t remember her mother, though she was excited about meeting Ilsa,
Christophe, on the other hand, had been four when Ilsa was lost to him. He was now eight, almost nine. He remembered her.
They met young, fell in love young and married young. They had a marriage full of promise and passion, laughter and contentment. His Ilsa had a good life from her first breath, but not to the last one.
But this Ilsa, what lurked behind her eyes was so deep he could mine it for centuries and never get to the bottom of it.
“You won’t see him again because I’m not allowing it.”
“You can’t see past him. I’m having difficulty seeing past her.”
Lavinia and I are concerned that there are too many coincidences linked to our foes and the couples united over the worlds.
“She seduces me with this word. She also thinks she can use it to get away with madness.”
No, because if his world could turn dark at the loss of Ilsa and these feelings he had for Madeleine grew, what would become of him if he lost her?
I’m Queen Aurora’s strategist.
more than fairytale worlds to fix what’s broken in me. And this is because I live every day knowing it was me who broke it.”
Home was a warm, safe place where you were always welcome. Where there was love and memories of laughter and happy times.
And you? The woman who uses a dead wife’s charms to enchant her heartbroken husband so she can warm his bed in order to wear his jewels and earn her place on his arm? Is the world richer for your presence?
“It would seem I am much like your father, Madeleine, for no matter how I wish to keep you from harm, you consistently find your way into it by making rash decisions that lead to dire consequences.”
“When offered the chance, he didn’t even try.” “Or he may have been smart enough to know when he should give up.”
I’d run away from Pol so I wasn’t his literal whipping post. I didn’t need to be with a man who used me as his verbal one.
“It’s my feeling that you females who allow yourselves to be caught by these overbearing men are quite mad.”
I was still at Apollo’s mercy. He gave me everything. And when he felt like it, he took it all away.
But it seems he is, since his father also installed his mistress at the dower house just like Ulfr has done with this Madeleine.
