A heartbreakingly beautiful smile spreads across his lips. “The mate bond has appeared for you too?”
“Youknew?”
“Of course.”
“How long have you known?”
“Since that morning when we woke up in the cave after you cuddled me.”
Her cheeks flush, and she tries to draw her eyebrows down in a scowl as she huffs, “I was not cuddling you.”
“Yes, you were, little viper.” He smiles. “Yes, you were.”
She grabs the back of his neck and yanks his mouth down to hers.
I let out a whoop as she kisses him fiercely.
He slides one hand along her waist while resting the other on her jaw and the side of her neck. Holding her possessively, he kisses her back like he has been starving for her.
Draven wraps an arm around me and pulls me closer to him before kissing my temple. His golden eyes glitter and there is a warm smile on his face as we watch Isera and Orion finally admit what we have all known for weeks. That the two of them share a soul.
“Look!” someone calls from across the throne room. “The Seelie Queen and the Unseelie King!”
“They’re kissing!” someone else blurts out.
“What does this mean?”
“Are they together?”
“Will our courts become one?”
“Didn’t we used to be a united fae realm before? Are they going to bring that back?”
“Are they married?”
“Will they rule both courts together?”
Voices, one after the other, echo across the glittering throne room as the fae of the Seelie Court stare at Isera and Orion, who are still kissing each other as if they are the only people in the room.
Then Isera at last breaks the kiss. But she doesn’t pull back.Still keeping her hand around the back of Orion’s neck, she rests her forehead against his and lets out a short laugh.
“Oh, this is going to be trouble, isn’t it?” she says, amusement still in her voice.
“Yes, it is.” Orion grips her chin and tilts her mouth up to his, stealing one more kiss from her. “But you have always been trouble, little viper.”
She laughs against his lips. “Likewise, pretty boy.”
Smiling, he releases her chin and pulls back enough that he can meet her gaze. His black and silver eyes glitter like the most beautiful of night skies. “So what do you say? Should we face this the way our courts always should have been?”
Utter certainty pulses across her face as she nods. “Together.”
“Together.”
CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
You’d think that being a part of the most unlikely friend group this world has ever seen would involve something a lot more insane than the events of the past year. But apparently not.
All it took was a round of brutal Atonement Trials, being imprisoned in an ice palace, fighting for our lives as entertainment for the Unseelie Court, a couple of sneaky schemes, some betrayal by allies, a heist, finding a legendary dragon clan, making deals with dryads, fighting the greatest battle of our age, and bringing down a millennia-old dynasty by killing two immortal monarchs.
