Chapter Seven

Stone

My father, King of the Night Keep, taught me that those who weren’t hunters were prey.

Aria Sunsong was defying that distinction with every breath she took.

She was weak, in this fragile human form. I could have snapped her delicate neck in a heartbeat. Then, she had kissed me so fiercely, defied me so stubbornly, and twisted my cold, dead heart in my baren chest in a knot.

I hadn’t felt this way since the last time I held her, lifetimes ago, and a world away from this one. That made Aria dangerous, in this world, or our own. Never mind her fae power, which was strong as ever, she was also dangerous in a different way.

Another lesson my iron-fisted father had taught me was that emotions made a man weak. Love? The worst danger of all. Luckily, in my immortal existence, there was only one woman who had threatened to weaken me with love, and I’d finally found her.

The aura of her power called to me across the dimly lit bar.

I looked around, depressed to see a woman dancing o