When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.

I understand if you choose to leave. If it means you get to live, I’d let you go. But you need to know, I won’t ever regret a moment we’ve spent together

I couldn’t help smiling as he grasped my arms and held me in place because his warmth infected me. I hadn’t known I was freezing until he held me. I hadn’t known until then, after...

For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence

The wind and the sea and the storm were his domain and I wanted nothing to do with them any longer. I just wanted Cain.