"I plan to hold you to that promise.” She surrendered to him, her eyes drifting closed, and he bent her over his arm.
There would be trouble. Shaun would need them. The princess's life was still in danger. But Xandros and Carina would see it through, side by side. For Xandros, the thought that he would never be alone again gave him a sense of contentment he'd never had before. He'd marked her to share her fate, to be connected to this woman who had wrecked his well-ordered facade.
For the first time in his life, he was home. Home in her arms, home wherever she breathed. The future wasn't set, but he knew who he faced it with, and that was all that mattered.