QUOTE : You have to trust me, my love. There has only been you. I know who you are. You are my queen. You always have been.”<br />I couldn’t look at him, but I could feel his gaze on me. So pained and tender that I fought the need to run to him, to comfort him. But I couldn’t push out the image of the woman in the glass garden. I couldn’t forget Gauri’s necklace encrusted with blood. I couldn’t forget how he had hinted at some latent power within me, and yet I couldn’t move a single thread on the tapestry.<br />I couldn’t forget his lies.<br />“Go near that tree and I will lose you forever,” he said fiercely. “Your memories won’t keep. Your <i>powers</i> will be gone.” Amar staggered toward me, and this time, I couldn’t help but look at him. His eyes held mine in a firm, unyielding gaze. “<i>Jaani</i>, I put too much of myself and my own memories into the tree.