Check & Mate

by Ali Hazelwood

Perfect. Lovely. Now would be an excellent time for the floor to morph into quicksand. Swallow me alive, too.

The Kingkiller leans forward, ever so slightly, and his intense, awestruck expression feels much more threatening than a folding chair to my head.

First meet btw

It’s either compartmentalizing or going broke buying inhalers.

Very real

I huff. “First of all, I seriously doubt Nolan Sawyer has ever winked, will ever wink, or even knows the meaning of the word wink.”