Immortal Flame: Immortal Origins Akadian's POV (Chronicles of the Immortal Trials, #1.5)

IMMORTAL ORIGINS from Akadian's POV Book 1.5

"If only she could see herself the way I do. Then, she would see what she truly is; beautiful ferocity made flesh. In five hundred years, I've never seen anything as terrifyingly dangerous as her smile. A smile I know will be the end of me. But as long as it's the last thing I ever see, I'll embrace my undoing..."

Akadian has spent half a millennium hating what he is and what he was made for but found routine as a prince of the empire. His life has never been his, and he's grown to not think about it. Until one day a servant pledges her name to the Immortal Trials; a deadly competition in which the winner gains a place in the kingdom of the gods. Setting them both on a course of fate that could change everything...