Aleksey's Kingdom (A Royal Affair #2)(66)

That place was where nature warred with itself: water, land, and the falling of one to the other as no water should go unto its death. It was not a place for men.

Perhaps we all just went a little mad for a while, living alongside the falls.

But now I really must go. I get called only so many times before I am punished.

I have a feast to attend.

We are to have our binding, just the two of us with Xavier and Freedom, Boudica and tiny Blueberry—I call him Blue; I am a man, after all—and Grace.

Laugh if you want, but what banishes horror?

What makes the world a good place to be in if not love, however you find it and however you celebrate it?

I have found it here in this wild country where water plummets beyond the human ability to comprehend and where blueberries are laid by the Great Spirit who sees and understands us all.

I must go.

I am loved.

I love—adore.

All is well.