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“No fucking other guys.” He leans in, inches from my face, glaring deep into my eyes. A shiver of anticipation runs through me. “I don’t share. This year, you’re my wife. Mine.”

“You’re very beautiful.” “I look like I’ve been scooped up from the wildlands.” “It’s best to keep you like this, I think, If I am made a fool by you like this, I’d be incapacitated to see you dressed as you should be.” “And how should I be dressed?” “In a crown. Made with stones the color of honey to match your eyes.”

“You have shone a light on me. You made me feel fury and terror and joy and longing. How do I curl myself back into the darkness after being so alive?”

“What I feel for you is beyond reason—beyond duty and desire. You have tipped my whole world on its side, and you are the one clear thing in the chaos.” His nose brushed the end of mine. “You. I want you.”

“I cannot even see her for the way you encompass me.” Emotion etched his face. “You fill my every sense. You stalk my waking mind. You make up the entirety of my dreams.“

“Need a hand?” “Lay a hand on my wife and you’ll lose it.” Theodore gripped the hilt of the dagger.

His lips were at my ear. “If I had known you then..“ Slowly, he spread his fingers wide and dug into my ribs, as if he wanted to touch as much of me as possible. “I would have worshipped you,” he said, husky and slow. “Laid you out over my bed like a goddess on her altar and gotten on my knees before you. And when we were done, after a very long time…”

Willing to marry that captain. No—you seemed eager to marry him.” Each word grew heavier and heavier with scathing anger. “Clinging to him, pressing your lips all over him when he’d done nothing to deserve you. What’s worse—I’m inexplicably envious of the dead bastard. He killed Sirens, and you would have him anyway, and it gnaws at me.”

“I called you a gnat, and I detest myself for it. I am the bug. A moth. And you are the moon. Drawing me, pulling me. But I’ll never be able to reach you without destroying myself. All I can do is pray for the day.” He gave me a pleading look. “Do you understand? I am doing my very best to keep a grip on myself, to keep my distance, but everything you do seems in service of thwarting that goal.”

His brow crumpled, a look like remorse filling his eyes. “I’m sorry,” he blurted. “You are… You’re one ambush after the next and I have yet to get my bearings.”

“A woman like Imogen.” I smoothed my undone tumble of hair. “There’s no need to insult me while I’m sitting right next to you.” Theodore’s mouth pinched. “Bloody Gods—I’m not. I’m saying that the empress will think I’m slighting her and her daughter if I bring such an uncommonly beautiful woman with me into the negotiations.”

“And the king—he doesn’t need to touch to heal flesh or to make plants flourish.” My attention snapped toward her. “I’m sorry—what?” “What?” Agatha reared back at my reaction. “Every time the king has healed me, he’s touched me.”

Acker smiles, but it’s straight filth when he says, “Shame. I was kind of looking forward to tying you up.”

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“There is no world in which you do not consume my very being.”

“I’ve wanted to fuck you for ages. Ever since I first laid eyes on you. Ever since I saw you dancing in that damned vision with another man. The audacity that fate would imagine that anyone else would ever touch the woman I’d claimed for my own.”

“Then set me free.”
“What?”
“You consume my every waking moment. Devour my thoughts. You’ve poisoned my halls with your scent. Flooded my dreams to the point that I cannot tell if it is a delight or a nightmare to want to drown in you. If you hate me, then hate me, let us be eternal rivals. Let any future where you and I are more than enemies finally be done and gone.„

“Me either. And I plan on keeping it that way. Make no mistake. I will burn worlds to keep my word to her, old man. There isn’t a single person in this realm or any other that I wouldn’t sacrifice to make sure I don’t let her down.“

“I had no idea what you would mean to me. I had no idea what I would do to keep you safe. When I close my eyes, you are all I fucking see, Saeris Fane. I could be dead in the ground five thousand years and the frosts could have taken my bones, and still no other male will ever have loved another female the way that I love you.”

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THE PLOT TWISTS ARE PLOT TWISTING

I've never been one to trust in the gods, but I choose to believe that all things come from the same place when life begins. I have hope that they return to the same place when it ends. I'll be waiting for you there, Saeris Fane. F

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“I'm in love with you, Saeris Fane,” he whispered quietly into my hair. “And I'm already half-mad, anyway. What's a little complicated thrown into the mix?”

“I'll be grateful for every second that I can say that I belong to you, Saeris Fane. Eighty years or eighteen hours. It doesn't matter to me. It'll still be the highest honor of my life.

“Nobody will ever fuck you the way I'm about to fuck you, Saeris Fane. I'm about to introduce you to all seven gods. When you meet them, don't forget to tell them I'm the one you worship on your knees.”

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