AN OATH STRONGER THAN DESIRE (To love beneath the crown)
he murmured, voice a whisper, “or temptation?”
Kaelin’s fingers trembled as she set the reports aside. Her gaze met his, dark, unwavering, magnetic. The memory of last night’s intimacy pulsed between them like a hidden flame. Desire lingered, subtle but insistent, threading through every word, every glance, every movement.
And yet, nothing crossed the line tonight. Nothing more than that near touch, that quiet acknowledgment, that shared awareness that rules could be bent—but only carefully.
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The chapter closes with Kaelin alone, reviewing maps and intelligence, aware that the palace is no longer safe, that Riven’s presence is both a comfort and a temptation, and that their forbidden tensio
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