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

by Amber V. Nicole

I remembered the cry, the scream when her sister died. It had been the center of my nightmares for weeks. I could still feel the pain of my body flying through walls, windows, and metal from the force of it. This wasn’t her. This emotionless empty shell was not my Dianna.

"My Dianna" HOW AM I ALREADY CRYING

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

MOTHER DIANNA IKTR

I took another sip of my wine, not lifting my gaze from the green flames in the fireplace. Even they appeared to cringe from what had just entered.

Ik she's going thru it rn but I fear I cannot help the love I have for feminine rage and she's the embodiment of that rn

The dark, archaic power emanating from her made my body tremble. I remembered her being a fraction of what I felt in this room, but then that was before, when Gabby was alive to drag her back from the brink. Now there was no Gabby, and that sharpened edge she’d always teetered on was a thing of the past. She had dived head first off it, slicing herself to pieces on the way down.

She paused, and I saw it then. The rage, anger, and hate disappeared for a mere second. My magic felt it too. The harmful power she held around her as a shield fractured, as if his name was a lover’s song, coaxing a trembling beast.

MY HEART-

I expected her rage and vengeance, but what I got seemed so much worse. Dianna stood over her sister’s body, her eyes never leaving her face. She raised a single hand and lovingly brushed Gabby’s hair from her colorless face.

my girl is in so much pain 😭 this is devastating

Our parents taught us that the body was just a vessel. Only a shell remained when the soul, the most essential part, left. Maybe that was why I felt what I did. Was I just a shell now? My chest felt as if a thousand rocks were crushing it. There was no movement, no life, not anymore. I knew I should cry and scream, but nothing came.

My heart is breaking for her all over again😭

The heat of her gaze should have stirred something inside me, but it did not. Not like the woman upstairs who had ignored me from the moment she met her friend.

Ugh he's so obsessed and he knows it

My heart ached. I was so afraid I would never see her laugh or smile again. I had not realized how deeply my feelings for her had grown over the months we spent together. How utterly attached I had become to my fiery temptress. I had not realized it until it was too late, and she had already left, taking a part of me with her.

SOMEBODY SEDATE ME

“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.”

I knew two things with absolute certainty. First, when she came out to fight, she wore her hair back from her face as she did now, her long ponytail swinging behind her. Second, this cruel creature wasn’t my Dianna.

I'm tachycardic.

Years of war had steeled my stomach to gruesome atrocities, but seeing her so casually holding the head of Ethan’s wife in her palm had my gut twisting.

OH SHIT

Her energy rubbed against mine, almost abrasive. Logan shifted next to me as if he were willing his own power to calm down and not react because this was Dianna. She wasn’t dangerous. She wasn’t deadly or a threat to us. I knew it in my soul. She was Dianna. My Dianna.

He's so delusional I love him

Every cell screamed danger even as my soul whispered what a lie it was. My heart skipped a beat, and I’m sure they all heard, but I couldn’t help it. No matter what, Dianna stole the very breath from my lungs without even trying.

The lengths I will go to for you are unfathomable. I refuse to let you hurt yourself, no matter how vile or mean you are to me. I know you’re in pain. You are mourning, and someone like you will grieve just as hard and deeply as you love.”

HE KNOWS HER SO WELL

Something in me snapped, tears stinging my eyes. “How am I supposed to get her back?”

“I can’t lose her.” My voice broke this time.

MY BABY PLS 😭😭😭

“It’s insane to be upset with her. I’d do the same thing. I’d kill anyone who hurt Neverra. So why do we care if they live?”

YES LOGAN

My head throbbed, flashing back over the last hour, seeing her but not her, feeling her but not her.

He is hoping I will be the king of legends. The slayer of monsters and beasts, protector of realms and worlds, but she is my…” I stopped, unable to say the words. “I know.”

WAIT WAIT WAIT SHE'S WHAT?????

Webster Malone was one of Kaden’s lackeys. Now he was an arms dealer with no arms.

HA