He shook his head. “I told you I would never let you go.”
“Even if I want you to?” she asked quietly.
“You don’t want me to,” he told her with complete confidence.
“Is it going to harm people? What does your king want to do? Are you going to have to kill someone?” Cassie’s eyes implored him to say no; she needed him to say no.
He dropped his hands to her waist and pulled her closer to him. He saw her needs in his mind as he touched her, needs he didn’t know if he could meet.
“Please don’t ask this of me Cassie. You know what I am.”
Cassie glared at him. She would not let him off that easily.
“I know you have a choice. Regardless of what you were born into, you have a choice.”
“It’s not that simple,” he pleaded.
“We are the ones who complicate things, Trik. You either choose what’
