Elowen already won the fight that was supposed to kill her. The throne is secure. The bond is legal. There's a child inside her that no court in the realm can take away.

She should feel done fighting.

She isn't.

Levin spent twenty-four years being raised on one rule: the fae take everything, so trust nothing. He built a life around it, then broke it for her. He thought that closed the account. It didn't. The man who raised him never stopped grieving — and grief, given enough time and enough followers, stops staying quiet.

Levin doesn't know yet how close that grief has grown to becoming something he can't walk back from. He only knows the peace he came home to build is standing on ground that was never as settled as it looked.

And the thing growing inside Elowen isn't waiting for either of them to be ready.

Dual POV. Explicit. For readers of Sarah J. Maas and Raven Kennedy.

"The Heir"

by Marie Nightwell