House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)
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language skills would be useful, considering the extent of bullshit still to be spun.
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he’d been on a hot streak of making stupid decisions lately, so why stop now?
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“Now’s not the time to go on a self-righteous warpath, sweetheart.” Sigrid looked
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feared warriors in this city?” Dec just kissed his cheek. Marc sighed. “If I have to
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“I’m not biting off your fucking hand,” Hunt managed to say. “It’s the only way I’ll reach it. It’ll grow back.” “This is insane,” Baxian said.
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Apparently, magical interstellar travel didn’t care about physics.
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a necromancer.” “And I need a new assistant, but you’d be surprised how few competent ones are out there.” Ithan didn’t hide his glower. “I’m serious.” Roga signaled the bartender for another round. “As am I. Ever since Quinlan left me to go work at the Fae Archives, I’ve been up to
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If there was a level below rock bottom, Tharion had found it.
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Hunt could only wonder if he’d pissed off Urd today as he realized he had claimed the chair nearest to the head of the table—to the monarch standing there.
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Hunt had left his body. Maybe he’d died.
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But the gods knew he wasn’t the one to dispense any sort of advice regarding love. Loss, maybe—he’d
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didn’t hesitate. She left, robes flowing behind her, and shut the door.
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“Why do you guys have a morgue down here?” Jesiba sat on a medical-looking stool, back straight. “Where else are we supposed to raise dead bodies?” “I don’t know why I asked.”
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“At the risk of being ridiculed … what am I looking at?”
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as if they were speaking to her. Ruhn was about to offer her
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“You’re going to drink and hope you pass out and … talk to Hel?
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it under an arm. “If anything, you are mine.” Hunt’s knees buckled. “What?” “Let us sit and be civilized about this,” Aidas said to Bryce, but she was peering into the shadows of
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apologize for that?” Pollux should be the one
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I think that was left to higher powers. Whatever they may be.”
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the archives.” Ruhn added, “Rigelus used one to grab Athalar’s power in the dungeons. Would it work for you, too?” Hypaxia nodded slowly and said to Hunt, “I wouldn’t require much.” Bryce
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He had no choice but to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Maybe at some point, he’d stop leaving a trail of absolute destruction in his wake.
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Ruhn looked back to Lidia and saw her smiling, delight and mischief brightening her face. And damn if it wasn’t the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.
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“You look different.” “Good different or bad different?” “Good. Like a functioning adult.”
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Sabine?” Sabine snarled at Perry, and Perry backed away a step. Ithan’s hackles rose at the fear, the submission. “Everyone knows the Holstroms have long desired to replace the Fendyrs,” Sabine went on. “Bullshit,” Ithan spat. “Our traditions continue because they are strong,” Sabine said to
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“It’s my first mission with my girlfriend. I want to impress her.”
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Prayed to every god, even if they’d mostly fucked him over until this point.
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“Am I supposed to be pleased to hear you have yet again defected?” “I did what my morals demanded,”
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star blazing. So bright—with the two other pieces of Theia’s star now
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I love you. I fell in love with you in the depths of my soul, and it’s my soul that will find yours again in the next life.
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fingers found nothing at all as they slid over that line and vanished. Time slowed
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“Thanks. I always appreciate a partner-in-brooding.”
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He figured Ogenas would guide him at some point. Maybe help him figure out his mess of a life.
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“My life is complicated.” “Whoever said normal isn’t complicated?” he countered. “All I know is that whatever tomorrow or next year or the next millennium has in store for this world, I want to face it at your side.”
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office sex,” she purred. She felt the hardness of him push into