Kingdom of Ash

retrieve the keys and forge the Lock. Your
soul will be claimed as well. Not one scrap of
you will live on in the Afterworld.”
“There’s no one who would really care
about that anyway.” He certainly didn’t. And
he’d certainly deserved that sort of end, when
he’d failed so many times. With all he’d done.
Gavin studied him for a long moment.
Dorian held still beneath that fierce stare. A
warrior who had survived the second of
Erawan’s wars.
“Elena helped Aelin,” Dorian pressed, his
breath curling in the space between them.
“She didn’t balk from it, even knowing what it
meant for her fate. And neither did Aelin, who
will have neither a long life with her own
mate, nor eternity with him.” As I will not
have, either. His heart began thundering, his
magic rising with it. “And yet you would. You
would run from it.”