time, would have only swayed them.”
“You’re the one who’s about to die. I’d say
you get to have a voice in it.”
She bared her teeth. “This is my fate. Elena
tried to get me out of it. And look where it
landed her—with a cabal of vengeful gods
swearing to end her eternal soul. When the
Lock is forged, when I close the gate, I will be
destroying another life alongside my own.”
“Elena has had a thousand years of
existence, either living or as a spirit. Forgive
me if I don’t give a shit that her time has now
come to an end, when you only received
twenty years.”
“I got to twenty years because of her.”
Not even twenty. Her birthday was still
months away. In a spring she would not see.
Rowan began pacing, his stalking steps
eating up the carpet. “This mess is because of
her, too. Why should you bear its weight
lily
(lily)
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