His teary eyes met hers, and he put his hand over his heart. “I had to touch you. To hear your voice just once, Rohi.” 

He grasped her hand and rubbed his fingers over them. “But now, I want more.”

Her shoulders pitched up and down, and she lost focus of the entire world as the Fates wove their magic around them. “What’s happening to me? Are you using some kind of spell on me?”

“I could do nothing to harm you.” His body hovered against hers as he glanced down at her lips. “I’m your mate.”  

Queen of Ruin

“Sleepwalk…” Tessa shook her head as the song she long ago refused to utter fell so sweetly from her lips again. “Where in the hell did that come from?”


While she packed her things in her room, she found herself humming the tune again. The flash of the memory of Rafik’s brown eyes came to her mind, and she swallowed back the urge to cry. “What the hell is going on?”


Leaning over with his hands clasped between his legs, Haldir breathed away the dull ache in his chest. He’d spent almost every second with her for ten years, and the thought of her being somewhere without him made a sick sensation rise in his gut. “Don’t you think you should prepare her for what’s about to happen?”


On the soft, white couch across from him with his ankle crossed over his knee, Teddy patted the back of the seat he had his arm stretched out across and rolled his eyes. “Sure. That’s a fantastic idea.”


With a smirk, Haldir nodded as he glanced up at him. “We should have done this a long time ago.”


Chapter 12 TWELVE ENGLAND