His fingers threaded through mine. “In all honesty, I find it difficult to say for certain. There was such a long time when you didn’t know what I was at all, and then afterward…the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And perhaps — perhaps I wasn’t sure if I wanted to know whether you would love me more, or less, because I had mortal blood in me.”
I knew I needed to clear up that misconception right away. “Jace, I love you because you’re you. Whether you’re all djinn, half djinn, part sea monkey…I just don’t care.”
To my relief, he smiled. “Alas, no sea monkeys. Only divided straight down the middle, djinn and mortal.”
“I can handle that.” Right then, I recalled something else Aldair had said. As much as I really didn’t want to bring him into the conversation, I wanted to know w
