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“Nothing is without a price.”
It was an effort to keep her iron teeth from snapping down from the slits in her gums. “You’re not my duke,” she said. “Nor are you my grace.”
She could handle this mortal pig who would be worm food in a few decades—and then she could return to her glorious, wicked, immortal existence.
“We are to be your army, not your whores,”
“If you want me to whisper sweet nothings into your ear, Majesty, I’ll do just that. But you’ll still get me what I need.”
“When you shatter the chains of this world and forge the next, remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by time. I have amassed enough money in my miserable life to not need any more—so you will understand me clearly when I say that wherever you set your throne, no matter how long it takes, I will come to you, and I will bring music and dancing.”
She was the heir of fire.
She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers. She was Aelin Fireheart, and she bowed for no one and nothing, save the crown that was hers by blood and survival and triumph.
She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion.
“Only slaughtering men like pigs, correct?” “Their deaths equate to their behavior in life,” Manon replied
“Together,” he said quietly, reverently. “Together, we shall create wonders that will make the world tremble.”
“They are darkness, they are glory, they are eternal.”
“How cruel and ruthless you’ve become, my love. But will you become a tyrant as well? Perhaps you should start slipping rings onto the fingers of your followers.”
“Honestly, I wouldn’t mind seeing you three gutted and hanging from the chandeliers by your insides, but I think it would ruin these very beautiful carpets that I’m now the owner of.”
“We’ll face this together,” he breathed, his eyes shining bright and canines gleaming. “As we have in the past. To whatever end.”
I would find you. I don’t care how many rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you again. Always.”
“I came back for you. Just like I promised.”
They were infinite. They were the beginning and the ending; they were eternity.
The wicked will tell us anything to haunt our thoughts long after,
