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The Shadow Knight had never intended for his witch to be drawn into the final day of this curse In his last moments alive, he wanted to be numb, to watch the world crumble from a place of neither e alone, on sequestering himself in the bedchamber that was supposed to become his when he was master of the castle

He didn't expect his witch to find him, especially once the Heart was destroyed

By soan to realize they were reliving the fate of his ancestor, the Shadow Knight whose death started the curse Naia had predicted his death at the hands of Brown Sun Lake and they'd bonded the night before the final battle

The only real difference: the world was ending this day and there was no Heart for Naia to use to cast another thousand-year spell

His feelings and rant him the respite he hoped to have today Pain so raw it caused physical pain made him touch his heart, and he rose fro love to his battle-witch, his queen, his Naia, who slept deeply after the long night

She proved to be as intriguing in bed as she was during daylight, her co his sense of possessiveness roar in satisfaction He had laid with her every way possible, unable to get enough of her, needing ether

Sweet, gentle, spirited, beautiful His queen was not traditional, but she was his in every way, a woic of the enuine, and whose cries and sighs as she writhed beneath hiht impossible

He wantedneeded to save her His soul quivered with the despair brought on by the thought of watching her die One night with the woave hiht crossed to theand braced his hands on either side It was harder than usual to knohat time of day it was; the black clouds above his castle shunted out evenoutside despite the fog, and he judged it to be aroundthe blue sky during his reign Instead, the heavens had turned black because he was unable to stop it