The Wife Who Returned
She covered his hands with her own, lacing their fingers together—a gesture of solidarity, of love, of determination.
"Nothing we didn't already know," Seraphine admitted, her voice steadier now with Lucien's warmth surrounding her. "The terms of supernatural bargains are binding. The Angel gave me seven years, and when those seven years are up..." She couldn't finish the sentence, couldn't voice what would happen when the clock ran down to zero.
Lucien's arms tightened around her, and she felt him press a kiss to the crown of her head, a gesture so tender it made her throat tight. "Not happening," he murmured against her hair, the words for her alone. "I won't let it happen."