You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her.”Niall turned his gaze to Irial. “What would you do?””Blind myself, if you were foolish enough to use those words.

Can I join you at lunch?” She paused. “You have every other day.” He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. “Yes. But you resented it...

If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn’t let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he’d left them. He would keep her, with his court’s permission or...