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Chapter 8 – Terms[Part 1]

Author: Mercy V.
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-23 13:02:14

For a long moment, no one moved.

The words hung between us like a drawn blade.

*I’ll marry you… but I won’t be your secret—ever again.*

Daire’s eyes searched my face as if he expected me to snatch the sentence back. Behind him, Kieran went very still, some quick calculation flickering and then smoothing in his gaze.

I didn’t flinch. I was so tired of flinching.

“Well,” Kieran said at last, lightly, as if we weren’t standing on the edge of a knife. “That’s one way to make the Tribunal work for their paperwork.”

Daire didn’t look away from me. “Terms,” he said quietly. “You set them. All of them.”

A bitter laugh scraped up my throat. “You always say the right things *after* doing the wrong ones.”

“I’m still learning,” he said. “That’s why I’m not talking until you tell me what this looks like. To you.”

“Good instinct,” Kieran muttered.

I turned away from both of them, just enough to think. The couch was behind me; I let myself sink down onto it, knees suddenly less trustworthy than I wa
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