Everless

“I am delighted to have run into you, Jules.” He leans close, brings his mouth nearly to my ear. “More than you know.”

she’s land, and I’m drowning

Anxiety knots my stomach

that night changed me. You changed me

Your voice is an hour’s rose; your soul a loving thief. I’ll follow you through the fledgling woods, till your heart is mine to keep

I am no longer the skinny, knobby-kneed girl of my youth—I’m terrified that Liam will remember me.

And I’m terrified that Roan will not.

“Lord Baldwin,” he says with a low laugh. “No need to scare the poor thing. It’s a hideous shirt, anyway. You should be thanking her for doing you a favor.”

Run. My father’s voice.