Total pages in book: 114
Estimated words: 109540 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 548(@200wpm)___ 438(@250wpm)___ 365(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 109540 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 548(@200wpm)___ 438(@250wpm)___ 365(@300wpm)
My eyes narrow. Matthew had repeatedly asked me if I knew what I really wanted. He’d said, “I do. I see it. I feel it. Think, Empress. See far.”
I’d wanted to love both Aric and Jack in a world that was healed. I unsheathe my knife and tug free the red ribbon.
I cut it in half.
As the two approach, I gaze at their faces, but I’m not looking only at them. I’m looking at all of the Arcana, at the world. I’m looking at you—the readers of my chronicles—and I dare you to judge me for the happiness I’m about to take.
Imagine me straightening my shoulders and staring you down as I write my final say on this subject:
I’ll
have
both.
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The Empress
Year 878 N.D.
And so I did.
Surrounded by friends and family, the three of us were never separated in this life, nor will we be in the next, our bond transcending mere mortality, now and forever.
Sometimes, readers, you just have to see far. . . .
Here endeth the trew and sworne chronikles of Our Lady of Thorns, the Emperice of all Arcana, chosen to represent Demeter and Aphrodite, embody’g life, all its cycles, and the myst’ries of love.