The Queen is Man
he muttered against my neck, his teeth grazing the skin just inches from the hidden pearl.
"I'm here." I slid my hand down his back, feeling the ridges of his spine, the scars from his father's belt, the old wounds that had made him the monster the world feared. "I'm right here."
"The drums," Ethan whispered, his head snapping up toward the high windows.
A dull, rhythmic thudding started from the harbor, vibrating through the stone foundations of the altar. It wasn't the sound of an army preparing to flee. It was the slow, steady beat of a battle line forming.
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