“Rivyn,” I tilted my face up and brushed my lips over his, lingering, trying to tell him with my kiss what I could not find the words for. I wanted to plead with him. He was already so powerful, whatever was trapped within the talisman, he did not need. He reached up to cup my cheek, his touch tender, but his eyes were turned inward, and I did not know… I did not know if I meant enough to him.
Would I sing if he asked it of me? I asked myself. If I did not, I would lose him, I knew. It would slowly tear him apart to spend each day looking at me, knowing that I had cost him his power. It was a terrible choice: to risk death, and the child within me, and give him what he sought, or to live and lose him.
The Fae were as merciless with their punishments as hearth tale taught, and I would suffer with Rivyn, no matter his choice, because we were bound together through magic, destiny, and the rule of three.
I drew in an unsteady breath. “Rivyn, I will…”