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Her fear grew stronger, stinking up the room with its sickly sweet smell.
“Take a breath.” I cupped her cheek. “It’ll be okay.”
“You don’t know that. You can’t possibly know that. I know I seem strong, but it’s something that I’ve worked hard on. I’m not invincible. I wouldn’t agree to marry someone on a whim… I need to marry for power. I have to do this or—”
I rubbed my thumb across her cheek. “Do you trust me?”
“Yes. Of course I do. But I have a very, very bad feeling about this. I don’t have Sight, not like Tessa, but I have something. And it’s screaming at me that this… It will go badly.” Her words were nearly whispers as we spoke, face-to-face, lying on the bed.
“Yeah, but didn’t you have a bad feeling about the chapel? And that turned out okay.” I grabbed her hand.
“Fair, but it was actually bad.” She absently stroked her fingers across my wrist. The movement made my wolf settle in a way that I’d never felt before.
He wasn’t in a deep sleep like he had been. For the first time, he was alert and awake, yet calm and content.
“You’ve had a bad feeling about a lot of things, and we’ve survived so far.”
A little crease formed between her brows and I wanted to kiss it away.
“Maybe, but it’s usually horrible getting there.”
“Well, focus on the end, not the hellish second act.” I grabbed her hand, stopping the movement of her fingers. I wanted her to really hear me. “I’m going to cut my lunar tie, and then I’ll do just fine in your court.”
She shot up from the bed, standing on it. “You can’t do that.” Her voice was more shout than anything else.
I knelt on the bed, reaching for her hand to pull her back down. “To save you, I’d do anything.”
She held her hands clasped at her chest, moving as far away from me as she could. “You shouldn’t. You can’t.”
I waited with my hand out until she took it. I pulled her down to kneel in front of me.
Another tear rolled down her cheek. “You don’t understand what losing the lunar tie would be like.”
She was so desperate, and I wasn’t sure she could think through her fear. I had to know why she was so against it. “Then tell me.”
“I…” She was quiet. “I don’t know what it would be like because no one has ever done it before.” She looked over at the door. “Van!” She yelled. “I have need!” She sat on the bed, and I sat next to her, waiting for Van to enter the room.
The door slid open, revealing Van. “What is it?”
“Close the door.”
Van stepped inside and put his hand against the empty doorway. The stone slid back into place.
It must’ve been a handy fey trick, because the doors certainly didn’t do that for me.
“What do you know about breaking the lunar tie?” I asked.
“I don’t know anything about it. No Were has ever tried. I don’t know if you’d lose your wolf or if you’d die or maybe nothing would happen.”
I turned back to her, with a grin. I was going to win this. “See? No need to flip out, then.”
“Flip out? Flip out! You could die!” She gave me a shove, but it was a half-hearted one at best.
I caught one of her hands and tugged her until she settled against me with a sigh. “Van,” I said.
“Yes?” he answered. He’d been quiet and out of the way in the corner, which I appreciated, but now that he’d answered her question, I wanted privacy.
“Get out,” I said.
