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Lark had gone through the portal to the otherworld.
And so had Isla.

“I want you. I still want you, even though you’re a traitor. I still want you, even though you’re my enemy. I still want you, even though you might kill me. I want you, I want you, I want you, and it is the most selfish thing I have ever felt.”

Isla looked at Grim. Begrudgingly, he made the tiniest of flowers bloom in his hand.
Then she looked at Oro.
Slowly, he uncurled his fingers. Petals dripped from them, onto the floor, roses tipped in thorns.
They both loved her . . . and she loved them.

“Why should we trust you?”
Isla let shadows engulf one of her arms. The other was wrapped in tendrils of ice, air, crackling energy, and fire.
“That proves nothing,” Enya said. “Only that they both still love you, which is obvious.” She glared at each of them, like loving her was a personal failing.

His look was pure fire. Pure satisfaction.
He was using her own power against her.
They both knew what that meant.

“Say that to me when you aren’t moaning my name in your sleep, and I might believe you.”

“I’m ready,” she said. She took a step forward. “I’m ready to try again. To be your wife. Truly.”
Slowly, his gaze never leaving hers, Grim went to his knees before her. He took her hands as gently as if they were made of glass and bowed his head. Tears swept down the sharp panes of his face.

“Don’t even think about visiting my chambers tonight.”
Then, the song was over. And he should feel lucky, she thought, that she didn’t reach for her blade.

“I know you think you being here is the only way to save Lightlark, I know you did it for us, but you cannot be the cost of this. I won’t let you be. There has to be another way, another—”

There was a figure, right outside her window, filling it like a god. Oro.