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This time, his voice was so low I barely heard it at all. “Should something happen, my full name is Viervo.”
My eyes widened.
Giving someone your full name, in Vevol, gave them power over you.
No onegave out their full name.
“Vee-air-vo?” I quietly pronounced the name, trying to embed it in my memory. Admittedly, I was terrible at remembering the fae’s strange names, and the pronunciations were even more difficult.
“Yes.”
I swallowed roughly, still staring out at the lake. “Thanks. I’m not going to need help, though.”
There was another brief moment of silence.
I felt more than saw Ervo’s body slowly tensing.
“Should something happen to you, I would burn this whole fucking world down to get you back,” he finally said.
The unevenness in his voice surprised me, but I tried not to show him that.
“Like a brother, right?” I drawled.
He blinked. “Of course.”
I shook my head, turning and striding away before I could overthink our relationship even more than I already had.
It was time for me to move on. Life in Vevol might not have been short, but it was definitely too long to continue mooning over a man who loved me like a sister.
“Ready?” North called from across the beach.
“You have no idea,” I called back.
She grinned, and I shifted forms.
It was time to change the damn world—even if said world was small, and full of people I didn’t particularly like.
