Court of Monsters and Malice (The Shadow Bound Queen, #3)

by Eliza Raine

But the way you two are with each other, it wasn’t hard to guess. It’s only a matter of time before you two kill each other or fuck each other.”

“This is not about me, little liar. This, I am beginning to believe, is about you. Which means you tell me everything, and we work out what the fates you are supposed to do to fix this fucking mess.”

Taking courage, I looked into his eyes and gave voice to the fear I had carried alone my whole life. “They know who I am. I’ve seen them my whole life, and now I’m wondering if they have been trying to communicate with me all that time. What if I mean something to them?”

“Ravens call and serpents hiss, All hidden by starlight’s kiss. Violence and vanity, Echoes of lost sanity. No war cries or raised blades Sully these shores or glades. Shadows keep the isle free, Thor’s talisman is the key. Accession or marriage, Royal blood earns passage.”

“You’d let a gold-giver read everything in your Shadow Court library?” “I’m bound to marry one,” he muttered, turning away. “What does one in my library matter?”

You are Reyna Thorvald, gold-giver, vision-seer, future Princess of the Shadow Court.”

“Do you have any idea what you do to me?” he murmured against my lips. Yes. I could feel him, hard and huge and ready, pressed against my body. His hands slid lower, fingers running over my backside. “You will be the death of me, gildi.”

“We will lift this curse.” His voice was even more hoarse than mine. “And when I next lay my hands on you, it will be no dream. It will be the most real, the most consuming, the most obliterating thing you will ever experience. When I take you, it will not just be your body. You will desire for nothing. Never want to leave. You will belong to me.”

“We get the mist-staff, we lift the curse. We kill the Queen. And then I will fill the void in your life, gildi.”