s*x in death
"He can only take what is offered in the moment of total surrender. Elowen... we can never touch again. If we fall into the passion of the marriage bed, the gateway opens. That is the trigger. That is why I kill you—because the demon takes my body to claim your soul at its most vulnerable."
I stared at him. "You’re saying... if we want to live, we have to live as strangers? In the same house? For the rest of our lives?"
Julian looked at the Great Mirror, where the King of Sorrows waited with predatory patience.
"Worse than that," Julian whispered.
Before I could ask what he meant, a loud, frantic knocking came from the tower door. But this time, it wasn't a monster. It was Julian’s head guar