A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty (Kingdom of Lies, #2)

by Stacia Stark

Men. So utterly predictable with their insistence on diminishing women to girls in an attempt to belittle us.

“But that doesn’t mean I won’t wish for you with every fucking breath for the rest of my life.”

a clever ruler will use religion to play on their emotions. Their desires. And their fears. They will promise either eternal happiness or the avoidance of suffering—here or in the afterlife. You will find it is surprisingly easy for someone to use a population’s fear of the unknown—and their poor education—to control them with lies.”

She pushed my shirt up, and I chuckled, enjoying how desperate she was for me. Only for me. If any other man ever saw her like this, I would kill him.