He spoke softly now, his sapphire eyes glittering with a searing radiance as they gently alighted on me. Though no judgment peered through that richness, I cringed in discomfort.
“That's not how you feel about your gift.” I said in quaking tones.
Jaiden smiled again. “You know me, Lace. I brag about anything and everything if I can.”
I grinned, relaxed he had lost his hardcore seriousness. “So tell me, why should we blame Fate?”
Uh-oh—he had returned to being hardcore serious.
“Fate…it reflects human nature, and appeals to the darker side in us—” (I gave myself props for suppressing a shiver)—“It's so easy for us, to be tempted, especially with power. We give into it once, and then we can't stop.”
I picked at my fingers—hangnail, dammit!—my thoughts wandering to Macbeth. He had defin
