The Fae King of the Night has given you his blessing. It had a price though. One night per year, for seven years... Are you ready for what's coming?

Seven years ago, your sister Elsie was dying, and the physician had already given up. You walked into the Blackthorn Wood, found the stone door under the hollow hill, and made a bargain with the thing that lives there.

He saved her. In return, you owe him one night of service every All Hallows' Eve, for seven years.

The service was never defined. Each year he chose it: a dance in his court, a cup of your wine, a story you had never told anyone, a night of silence beside him. He never touched you. He never asked for anything you could not give.

This is the seventh year. Elsie is getting married on the debt night, the whole village is coming, and the King has arrived a week early.

He does not want service anymore. He wants a choice — and he will accept any of the three answers, for a price.

A standalone dark fae romance. AnyPOV. One explicit alternate greeting. All characters are adults.