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He crouched close to her and felt for her face. “I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed.” “I’m dying now.” “You are not dying.” “But—” “I will be the judge of when you are dying, and when that happens, I guarantee you will get a kiss worth waiting for. But right now, you have to get up.”
“I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.
The man narrowed his eyes at her, making a point not to look at his own peer now holding him at gunpoint. “You can’t win this.” “I didn’t say we could,” said Cinder. “But we can do a lot of damage trying.”
“There’s nothing worse than your own body being used against you.”
Glancing around the room, Cinder tipped up her chin. “It starts with kidnapping the groom.” Thorne stopped tapping his cane and the room fell quiet. Pressing her lips, Cress dared to scan the faces of the rest of the crew, but everyone seemed perplexed. Iko’s hand shot into the air. “Yes, Iko?” “That is the best idea ever. Count me in.”
When his footsteps had faded, the girl pulled the basket onto her lap and riffled through it. “You shouldn’t call me crazy. They don’t like that.” Scarlet faced her again, her gaze dragging down the raised scar tissue on her cheek. “But you are crazy.” “I know.” She lifted a small box from the basket. “Do you know how I know?” Scarlet didn’t answer. “Because the palace walls have been bleeding for years, and no one else sees it.” She shrugged, as if this were a perfectly normal thing to say. “No one believes me, but in some corridors, the blood has gotten so thick there’s nowhere safe to step.
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