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If I kept talking to him, I’d open up too much.
And all I would do was burn him to the ground.
Though I made it a few steps closer to the fire, I didn’t walk into it.
Not yet.
I just… needed time.
Or maybe I just needed to stay human.
That was unrealistic, though. The kings transported everywhere, and if I stayed human, I couldn’t transport with Quake, which meant hiking. So much hiking.
It would be absolutely miserable.
But it would be one less massive problem to deal with, and I had more than enough of those.
“I’m fireproof,” he told me, stepping right back up beside me.
The man just didn’t quit.
I respected the hell out of him for it, even if I couldn’t admit it. “You were there when your city burned, the same way I was. Flame didn’t just roast it; he destroyed it.”
“I’m not a city.”
Damn him.
He justcouldn’tlet me sulk.
“Loving me would break you just as easily as he broke your city,” I said, my voice low.
Quake didn’t have an answer ready for that one.
But I’d officially told him a hell of a lot more than I’d wanted to.
“Velvet,” he began, his voice low and silky.
If one of us was going to call the otherVelvet, it should be me. His voice would get ridiculously smooth and seductive sometimes, and it made me weak. I said things I shouldn’t around him—did things I shouldn’t, too.
And in that moment, I made the decision.
It was the only decision to make.
If I continued standing there next to Quake, I was going to hand him more answers to the questions he’d been asking since I woke him up.
So I walked into the fire.
And when it burned, it reignited the flames blazing in my chest.
I was going to make it.
I was going to be fine.
And if I tried hard enough, maybe I wouldn’t burn the world to the ground on my way to becomingfine.
Quake’s eyes locked with mine through the fire, and the flames grew.
And grew.
