Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)

by Sarah J. Maas

Aelin said, “I promise you that no matter how far I go, no matter the cost, when you call for my aid, I will come. I promise you on my blood, on my family’s name, that I will not turn my back on Terrasen as you have turned your back on me. I promise you, Darrow, that when the day comes and you crawl for my help, I will put my kingdom before my pride and not kill you for this. I think the true punishment will be seeing me on the throne for the rest of your miserable life.”

“Aelin is my heart.

There was no such thing as a better world—no such thing as a happy end. Because there were no endings. And there would be nothing waiting for them in this war, nothing waiting for an escaped slave girl, but a shallow grave.

Damn pretty dark dude

one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her.”

“The world,” Aelin said, “will be saved and remade by the dreamers,