King of Patriam: Outlaws (QOTD #3)

The combat trials. He's going.
Cassian's only qualm is that he has to do the wrong thing to do the right thing.
The city's fate rests on his shoulders, but that's not what plagues his thoughts and hurries his heart.
She'll never forgive him. He knows it, but he still has hope that he can claim the heart of the woman he left behind.
If he makes it out alive...

He left her.
He thinks he's doing the right thing, but the numbers that Salem has trusted all her life are beginning to lose her faith. She wants him to live, she'll do anything to make sure that he does. But can she ever come to terms with what he did to save the city, what he did to her?
She gets her chance to keep him alive for long enough to figure that out, but what will happen when his safety is no longer in jeopardy? What will happen when it's hers?

This is the third and final book in the QOTD series, part 2 of Cassian and Salem's story. The order of the series:
1. Queen of The Dome
2. Brother of the King Consort
3. King of Patriam: Outlaws
Please be sure to read the author's note and trigger/content warnings.
This book is not a stand-alone and it is highly recommended that you read the first two books in the series so that you can understand the world, magic system, and character backstories as it picks up where Book 2 ends.