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up, still hard & naked. She run to Jax but when she gets close, what’s wrong? His chest splatter w/blood, he’s shaking. Hudson comes in bloody, wings torn. Where’s Elian? Jax falls to knees, Evander feels fear in chest. Jax looks at her, tears streaming & says he’s sorry. Evander knows, feels it, his brother is dead.

no memory of him, no memory of their bond. She knows Elian would want get know him not w/memories of them as kids but as men they are now. Elian spent most life looking for Evander, he never gave up on him. He asks her fight by his side, fight even if he dies. They flirt, he pulls her on top of him again to start again. Hear someone call Haley, see gets up taking Evander’s shirt to cover herself. Evander just gets

drunk on lust, they have sex. As they do their magic combines, swirls around them. Evander knows she belongs to midnight, she belongs to him just as she belongs to guys. She tells him he doesn’t have to leave. He does. He has allies, no she has allies, friends, lovers. He has prisoners, people only loyal to him for fear of his wrath. She say Elian wouldn’t want him leave. He say he may be his brother but he has

wearing it, his heart slowing. He say she still needs see Elian when he touches her? no, she needs see real Evander, not glamour of another man. He wants to grant her wish but puts it back on, strength returning. Not just glamour his soul is tied to Caradock, he’ll die w/out the ring. Real Caradock already dying, if he dies Evander will die too. She upset. They kiss, he drops to knees & licks her til comes. He

different histories. She touch his face. What changed him? A fierce, devious, beautiful thief kiss him on dais & turn his world upside down. Every moment since that night she’s held him captive, made him question all things he believed, all he was. When she wasn’t near, she haunted his dreams, thoughts, his breath. She gave him something truly worth fighting for. He picks her up & hugs her. She had need for him

he’d do all of this, save kingdom to never live in it again? never reep the rewards? For long time he thought he knew answer of why he’s doing this. Before he would’ve had others do this errand while he stayed in comfort. So why risk his life in storm? He steps close to her, takes off his ring, so he’s real Evander again. Elian & Evander may b twins but what behind their eyes show such different pain,

Evander could enact his revenge. They hugged each other. She understands how he feels about Caradock & what he did to survive but problem w/vengeance as survival tactic is not good for long haul. What she mean? Pretend he wins the war, defeats Malantha, dark winter & enemies, defeat Caradock. What will keep him going after that? He doesn’t expect to live long enough to need an answer. She doesn’t understand why

hand on bite marks, say when one suffers trauma the mind blocks it out so you can’t relive trauma over & over. He touches her scar on arm & say she probably knows something about it. He says in his case his mind did opposite, reliving it over & over so it was all his mind knew, made it so bad mind blocked out everything before. He survived but every time Caradock hurt him, he planned/plotted so when he messed up

tells her she’s too important & he won’t risk it. She thinks she’s too important to war not to him. He take shirt off to put fresh one on & she tell him she knows how he got bite marks. He say she knows more than him then. She touch bite marks, he hiss, she say Elian told her Evander saved him from silver wolf attack, Elian bitten too but Evander almost died fighting off wolf protecting his twin. He puts her

they come back. He tell her she has his word, & thinks to himself she has his heart too. He thought heart burned to ash long ago. She say about kiss, he say she doesn’t have speak. She felt butterflies when he almost kissed her. She sees him rearrange pack, is he leaving? Yes if her guys don’t get her w/in few hours. Don’t have time & he needs try convince feral fae join them. She say he can’t go alone, he