m_aelin

I felt it—a pull unlike anything I’d ever experienced. The bond. I stared at her, stunned as the realization hit me like a tidal wave. Sao was my mate. How? It wasn’t possible. I had convinced myself that the curse stripped me of this gift, that I would never have a mate. Yet, here she was, standing before me, bound to me in ways that defied logic and fate.

To break the curse of the past entwined, The hearts of two, together aligned. Beware the shadows that seek to claim, For only love can light the flame.”

“I’ve thought about us too, you know,” she finally said, her voice barely above a whisper. I turned to her, my heart pounding. “You have?” Sera smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes. “You’ve always been brave. But sometimes… sometimes bravery isn’t enough.” I nodded, my throat tight. “I understand.”

Seraphina had spent five quiet years at the orphanage, grieving the loss of her parents and trying to adjust to life in the frozen Kingdom of Orphic. That all changed the day Eleri arrived-wide-eyed, intense, and fixated on Seraphina.