Famous last words.
Sure enough, from that moment onward, no one would ever be able to convince one Kael Dravaryn that anything good could possibly follow such an opening line.
Never.
Never again.
In fact, he'd go as far as forbidding his mate from ever thinking about uttering those words in the future, and unlike many things in life, this wasn't something open for discussion.
Not when his life had practically flashed before his eyes as every bit of reassurance he'd painstakingly built for himself about having a longer and more stable future with Riley vanished in an instant. It was only then that Kael truly understood that being the Dragon Lord didn't mean jack shit before a being who'd existed since a time even older than all of them combined.
