❝ YOU ARE MY WHOLE WORLD. ❞ he tells her, hellfire eyes burning intensely into her ocean hues. ❝ my entire reason for living. ❞ if he had… if he had killed her tonight, if he hadn’t had been able to break free of his mother’s hold on his mind, and if he had killed her, maven wouldn’t be able to live without himself. he wouldn’t want to live at all. he had been at that point once in his life, not wanting to live. but then she pulled him out of it. she gave him hope. she gave him a reason to keep fighting. she did it for him then, and she did it again tonight.
maven pushes his pants and boxer briefs off his hips, kicking them away before his hand slips behind her back to unzip her dress. his fingers curl around the straps, pulling them off her shoulders, down her arms as he peels the fine fabric from her body. he kisses his way down as more and more skin is exposed. he wants to pause between her thighs, pleasure her as she deserves by eating her out, but he decides that there will be time for that later.
when he comes back up, he catches her lips in a kiss so long, so deep that his lungs start aching for air. and when he pulls away, he doesn’t really pull away, instead kissing along her jaw and down her neck as he pulls off her underwear before unhooking her bra. he moves back just enough to pull the lacy fabric off of her, and his lips find her breasts after he does. his hands caress down her thighs, wrapping her legs around his waist. ❝ i love you more than anything. ❞
WHEN SHE FIRST TOOK her role as maven’s maid she’d been nothing but a scared child. still relatively new to the palace and desperately trying to hide her unexplainable abilities from everyone for as long as she could. she’d come a long ways from who she was then, and so had he. together they’d grown as people, and they’d fallen so madly in love with one another. evie had accepted that she would forever love someone who would not ever be hers. their titles, their blood, their abilities... everything was designed to keep them apart.
yet here they were, married, king and queen of norta, and speaking of starting their family. she could hardly contain the happiness she felt. the smile on her lips growing wider as their lips part and his start traveling along her jaw and neck. she followed his guidance easily, wrapping her legs around his waist and using it to pull him closer to her, pressing her lips against his again. when she parted, a sigh left her. “ i’m so happy to be your wife. “ she whispered, rolling her hips against his slightly, “ so happy to get to spend my life with you. there’s nothing in the world i’d want more. “
maven had always been the one thing in the world she wanted above all else. even getting to see her mother one last time paled in comparison to getting to spend the rest of her life with the man above her. and by some unexplainable miracle, she’d been granted her wish. it had almost come to a bitter end today, and she was okay with that, too. knowing that maven wasn’t the one in control, knowing that they’d gotten to have a good few years together despite their differing ranks and lives, knowing that he had loved her just as much as she loved him, it was enough for her to let herself end. she had never expected any sort of happy ending with maven, any future with him, every second was one she was thankful for. “ i love you so much, “ she whispered, scraping her teeth against his jaw as one hand slipped into his hair, tugging on it lightly, “ my husband, my king. “
