Status Updates From The Merman King's Bride

“But I do. I love you more than the plants love the sun, more than the tides respect the moon, more than the birds love to fly, more than the moles like to burrow. I love you more than the flowers love the dew and more than the children love to play, I love you⁠—”

“Never. Sometimes you know from the start who your soulmate is. I knew from the start you were mine.”

Tokens are not what matters in love, I repeat to myself, but this was a token given in love, in the name of love, and what doesn’t matter is if it’s crushed or not.

“If I knew that you were throwing your heart away, I’d have fought harder for it, cursed or not.”

But despair equals fury. Fury equals pain. Pain equals sorrow. And sorrow is dragging me down.

“Of course I came. I always come when you call.”

Maybe I’m a fallen King, a cursed King, but I protect what is mine and I never realized that in my mind she already belonged to me.

But be that as it may, if men have privileges women don’t have, and I’m aware of my reality, thank you very much—not all men have to be that way.

Nobody wants to save me in this world or the other. The one girl who made me smile said she’s never coming back, and I believe her.

“Magic isn’t logical, Selina. Its laws are different.”

Being an adult means that when you act without thinking, you pay for the consequences…