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“I know,” Jacks growled. “I’m going to go back stop your son from killing her.” The queen’s face fell. For a moment, she looked as old as the years she’d spent lying in a suspended state. “That is not a small mistake to fix. If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.@ the fate gave the Queen a look more vicious than any curse. “There is nothing of equal value to me.”

He held her so tightly it hurt, but this pain she didn’t mind. She’d let him crush her, let him break her, just as long as he never let her go. This was what she wanted, and she refused to believe that he didn’t want it, too

“Whatever it is, Jacks, you won’t feel the same in a minute.” Ha swallowed hard and clenched his jaw. “You have no idea what I’m feeling now.” He looked at her lips, and the most tortured expression she’d ever seen crossed his face.

Ever since coming here, Jacks no longer felt like her enemy, he felt like her home.

“Evangeline wasn’t Jacks’s true love. But she found herself wishing that she were.”

“She meant to say, For tonight, I’m yours, but all that came out was “I’m yours.”

She new shacks was far too dangerous a person to truly fall for. But she could no longer deny that she wanted him. Just enough to keep his name near the tip of her tongue even when he wasn’t in room.

“I mean. . . It’s just one night,” he said softly. “I’m the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don’t like me, and I can pretend that I don’t care. But for tonight let me pretend you’re mine.”

She looked up at his unreadable eyes as he lowered her into the bed. “Do you still think of me as just a tool.” Jacks frowned. “ I try not to think of you at all.”