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“Bullshit!” The only woman I am connected to is Mia

“Wrong,” I replied to his thoughts “She is the only wo foris—”

“What? A fucking fairy tale? I a, not a prince”

“I know you won’t ever love me like you do her or your children I happen to ad so loyal But I also know I don’t deserve your hate” I tiltedheart, a heart that should’ve stopped over three thousand years ago, but kept on pu not see how miraculous that was?

He stepped back “If you see soout hope that I will stay here with you, in the land of the living, instead of crossing over to be with my wife?”

I knehy I couldn’t stop hoping, and I’d spent the last week learning how to shield the answer froined a fortress made of steel bricks, five layers deep, and placed hts and secrets inside Apparently, the trick worked because King had no idea I was pregnant With his baby I already felt the intense power growing inside, which irl, a Seer just like me

And he can’t find out

I refused to be his pity side piece, holding him to a world he didn’t want to be in, with a woman he could never love

“I’ more”

CHAPTER TWO

King

Help? I do not need her help I had already sent Jeni ho I could feel it Yet I sensed nothing malicious in her actions, which s: her heart or her fear of losing me

I knew she had fallen in love withI could never love her back Mia was and would always beThe best I could offer Jeni was my honesty, and I had

As for her fear ofstill felt new to her, but with time, she would come into her own as a Seer I was not here to assist with that My goal was dying Preferably sooner rather than later The challenge was, I kept co back to life—a punishment inflicted uponuntil those fucking witches untethered my soul from Jeni or I found a way to break their curse In either case, Jeni’s help would only be a liability Also, I did not trust her Seers were devious Even the good ones