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Yes, she’d die. Better for her to have a happy life married to someone else.
“…but it’s a bad idea.”
“Thank you for your opinion,” he ground out.
“It’s more than an opinion. I speak from experience.”
Eric raised his head, frowning. “What?”
“I was betrothed to a trinity when I was a baby.”
That startled a laugh out of him. “Betrothed?”
“Yes. To Rose?—”
The dark-haired counselor he’d met several times now but didn’t know.
“—and Devon.” She inhaled deeply. “And the first thing I did when I became Grand Master was to end the betrothal and break the trinity.”
Eric leaned back in the chair, now invested in this story. “Because you wanted…two dicks?”
“No. Because I hated Devon.”
“…your current husband Devon?” Maybe there were two Devons.
“Yes. I had loved him all my life until the day I realized, or thought I realized, that he didn’t love me the same way. It broke my heart. It’s why I focused on humanitarian work abroad once I graduated—anything to keep me away from home, and Devon.”
“And then you become Grand Master.”
“And then I became Grand Master,” she agreed. “I was angry at Devon, so I ended our trinity.”
“You still ended up together.”
“True. Though without Franco, it wouldn’t work.” There was a short pause. “Maybe all you need is your third.”
Eric couldn’t even bring himself to picture it.
“I won’t marry again,” he said, rather than directly addressing her statement.
“Because you’d have to step down as fleet admiral?”
“I’d fucking love to not be fleet admiral, but that would mean sticking someone I know, and like, with the job.” The fleet admiral position could only be held by someone who’d been an admiral, and technically he’d briefly been the admiral of Kalmar after his wife, who was the previous admiral, died.
“You’re still grieving your wives?”
Eric sighed. “No,” he admitted. “I’ll always mourn them, but I’m past the grief.”
He wasn’t past the guilt he felt that he hadn’t been able to protect or save them.
“Are you placing her in a trinity because it’s the only way to prevent a relationship between the two of you?”
“Given what an asshole I am, I don’t actually think she wants anything to do with me.”
“I got the hate-fuck vibes,” Juliette assured him. “But I saw her face when you said she’d be the third member of that trinity.”
Eric hadn’t seen. He hadn’t been able to bring himself to look at her.
“She pulled it together fast, but you broke her.”
