Chapter 138

Alaria

“You can’t do this,” I said, voice small at first and then cracking like a whip. Heat rose in my chest until it was all flames. “You can’t keep deciding for me. For Nasia. For us. I am choosing to be subtle until now, but it does not mean that I am letting it go, Liam. I am not going to keep ignoring everything that you do simply because you want me to.”

He stopped, and it was as if the pause itself carried the weight of a march. When he looked at me, his eyes were a dangerous, winter-dark lake. “It’s dangerous,” he said, low. “There are rogues. Rogues that you knew about and yet chose to keep from me. And the fact that you looked me in the eye and chose to ignore the fact that you knew that I would be worried…”

“I know there are rogues.” The words came out sharper than I meant as I stopped him. “Do you think I don’t live with those nightmares every day? Do you think I don’t know what they are capable of? You…” I swallowed. The room tilted. “You’re tr