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This girl is literally on fire 🔥🔥

“Don’t go through with it, please. Give me more time.”
“What do you mean?” I look into his eyes, searching for an answer.
“Don’t marry him.” His words come out as both a command and a plea.
“Who are you?” I know that his name is Bas, but that is all I know. “Will you do it? Will you wait for me?”
My heart shatters into a million pieces as I whisper, “No.”

I would of said YES so fast 🙂‍↕️🥲

Her grip tightens and pulls my attention back to her.
She gurgles a moan in a voice coarsened by salt and shadow, “You do not belong here. You must return to your throne and unify the nations.”

🧐 I thought she was already where she was supposed to 🙃

Arranged marriage to a tall handsome and funny prince?
Yes thank you 😙😂

“Is everything okay?”
“Yes.” When he looks up, his whole face sags and his bony shoulders slump. “No. The butcher fired me last year. Then last month, a pack of concos destroyed my garden. Now I have…” he chokes. “Nothing.”
“Here,” I say as I reach into my coin purse and hand him ten coins. New boots can wait, his need for sustenance cannot.

I love when characters are kind 🥹🤌

“No!” I yell, but I’m too late.
An ear-piercing scream echoes through the forest, shaking the trees from root to leaf. ”
“A life reduced to ash before my eyes.
Even the birds lose their song in reverence for the fallen man.”

… And this is only the first chapter 😨🫣

Wohooo am excited for this one 🤩