Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)

by Sarah J. Maas

“It’s good to have you back.” He added, stumbling a bit on the word, “Brother.” For that’s what they would be. Had never been before, but what Fenrys had done for Aelin … Yes, brother was what Rowan would call him. Even if Fenrys’s own— Fenrys’s dark eyes flickered. “She killed Connall. Made him stab himself in the heart.” A pearl-and-ruby necklace scattered from Gavriel’s fingers. The temperature in the tomb spiked, but there was no flash of flame, no swirl of embers. As if Aelin’s magic had surged, only to be leashed again. Yet Aelin continued shoving gold and jewels into her pockets. She’d witnessed it, too. That slaughter. But it was Gavriel, approaching on silent feet even with the jewels and gold on the floor, who clasped Fenrys’s other shoulder. “We will make sure that debt is paid before the end.” The Lion had never uttered such words—not toward their former queen. But fury burned in Gavriel’s tawny gaze. Sorrow and fury.