Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

by Rebecca Yarros

Gods, do you even know why he didn’t kill you that first year? I do. Because he trusted me to look ahead with him.” She knows about the deal with my mother. He told her. My fingers tingle, and I know I’ll lose feeling in the entire limb soon, but that doesn’t stop my body from trembling with fury…with rising power. Think. I have to think. She knows all my moves, at least the ones Xaden taught me. “Look at where we are. Riorson House.” Her mouth is close enough to my ear that I can feel how hard she’s breathing. “Who wouldn’t love all that power and the case it comes in? But I’m sure as hell not fighting you over a man’s affections. I’m going to war with you for a crown. That was the reason we were engaged. It was promised to me, and I’m not giving it to a damned Sorrengail who chose to drop the flier instead of her squadmate. Your entire family deserves to die for what you’ve put us through.” A crown? Engaged? My chest aches because it all makes sense. Two aristocratic families in need of an alliance. And I’m nowhere near nobility. “And gods, get some control over your emotions, would you? You’re so fucking weak it’s pathetic.” Her words are a string of hisses. Fuck her. Rhiannon trained me, too.

VIOLET U BETTER END IT GIRL IM SERIOUS