Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

by Rebecca Yarros

“I’m pleasantly fuddled but not entirely sloshed.”

As complicated as our connection is, it’s also undeniably simple. He’s the horizon, and nothing exists beyond for me.

“I haven’t exactly made it easy for you to trust me,” he says, stroking his thumb over my cheek. “I’m still not making it easy. But you and I are not easy people. What we build together has to be strong enough to withstand a storm. Or a war. Easy isn’t going to give that to us.”