The Underworld Trials of Luna
“But you can’t – I was promised –“
“I can,” he says, dry, passing a hand between them like a blade. “Our ties are severed, Beatrice. I divorce you, completely, with no rights.”
Beatrice’s face pales as she realizes that she lost everything she hoped to gain in her gamble. I feel the crackle of magic and know, perhaps as Anton and Laila cannot, that whatever magic marriage pact Death formed between them is now broken.
I go to one knee before Beatrice, realizing that she’s not going to stand up and look me in the eye. Slowly, I think terrified, she turns her face to me.