The Throne of Broken Gods (Gods & Monsters, #2)

by Amber V. Nicole

“When I burn this world to embers, and you paint me as the villain, remember, I really did try to be good… once.”

“You have taken someone from me with your actions—someone very precious to me. And now you have helped a lunatic corrupt her already damaged heart, shattering it into a million pieces. They are pieces I will pick up and fix, but what you have done is unforgivable. I plan to make you suffer for that transgression. Death would be a kindness, and you deserve none.”

The lengths I will go to for you are unfathomable.

She is still the girl who likes flowers and pretty gifts from overbearing god kings. She is sweet, kind, funny, and loves with her entire being. That’s why she is like this. She’s hurt. She’s in pain. If you love her, truly love her, don’t give up. True love is worth it. It’s worth fighting for. Remember that.”

Drake 😭😭😭

“You took my fucking hands.” “Yes, yes, I did.” I kneeled next to him. “I warned you what would happen if you put your hands on her. You should have listened.”

oh we love a king who keeps his word

there are no boundaries I will not cross if it means keeping her safe, especially after everything you all have taken from her. It is the highest law not to touch anyone in my court or what I consider mine. That act alone is punishable by death, and she is mine. It will be your

sometimes a king has to be a monster.”

“If you wanted me on my knees, Dianna, all you had to do was ask. You know that.”

“Yup. Even monsters love something.”

Death is death. If she is a monster to you, then so am I.”

Death takes no sides. Death does not discriminate or hate. It just is and has remained since the first living being existed and will be here long after. It may hurt, but it happens to all.

Grand fucking speeches once the blood has already hit and dried on the floor.”

we would try to bring her back because if Samkiel loved her, she was also ours.

oh my heart 😭

There is no place in this world or the next that you can hide from me, akrai.”

“You could make a river of blood run down these streets, and I would still try because I know you, the real you, not this version he created.”

“Do it.” I angled the tip of her blade above my heart. “If you are truly gone, I refuse to live in a world without you, so you’ll have to angle it farther to the right. That’s where a god’s heart lies, and mine already belongs to you, so do with it what you will.”

“There’s my jealous girl.”

He would never let me go, and the part of me I’d shut away behind a lock on a door in a house didn’t want him to.

“A thousand plus worlds he has seen, yet when he dreams, he dreams of you.”

“Love is such a dangerous and powerful emotion. The gods curse it, for it has power. Empires have fallen for it, reduced to sand and scriptures. Worlds have burned for it, and they will once more. Love has the power to touch even the untouchable. Use it.”

She made me feel normal, and then she left me. Abandoned me like it meant nothing.”

oh my baby🥲

“It’s Dianna. I think she is working through her problems.”

BAHAHAHAHA

think you’re in desperate need of new friends if you think we would ever leave you behind.”

Samkiel wanted an equal, and by the old gods, they had delivered.

She was our queen now. If Samkiel chose her, we would gladly follow her through every realm and back.

slay

“We won’t abandon you, Dianna,” Neverra said gently. “We are not them.”

“That’s what families do,” Neverra said, a blade spinning into her hand. “And you all are a poor excuse for it.”

“You’re a fool if you think I would be happy in a world where you did not exist.”

“Your smile, Dianna, is only one of the most beautiful things about you.”

Samkiel said he couldn’t fix a broken heart, but how could I tell him he already was?

“Too bad. You should have stayed. I would have woken you up. I was feeling generous.”

“there is no life with you in it that would be horrible. Horrible is living without you.”

“You deserve to be worshiped like the goddess you are,”

“You are better than any destiny.”

“Wouldn’t it suck if Kaden was like Samkiel’s long-lost uncle or something?” The room stilled. Even Logan stopped with a chip raised halfway to his mouth. Cameron glanced at all of us and then sighed. “He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”

LOL