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August 14 - August 15, 2024
I should hate him. I do hate him. For so many things. But I also want him to keep touching me.
“I’ll take you however you’ll have me, Inmate.”
“I hate you,” I say, meaning it, too. “I know,” he replies. “It’s why I want to break you so fucking much.”
OKAY STOP I AM FERAL
“Be a good girl,” he purrs in my ear and my heart kicks in my chest. “Spread your legs.”
“Who are you?” I ask, looking up at him, completely overwhelmed. “I am your worst nightmare, Inmate. But right now, I’m going to make you come so hard, you’re not going to care.”
I’m not trying to take anything from you. Not anything you aren’t choosing to give freely.
It dances and sparks under my skin. But it’s not trying to break free, it’s spinning and moving like its arms are thrown wide, and it’s celebrating under a shower of falling stars.
IM DYING I LOVE THIS ALL TOO MUCH
“Please,” I say, my words ragged. “As you wish, Heart Queen.”
His kiss devours me, claims me, making my knees go weak again. There is such ferocity behind it, it almost feels like he’s telling me something.
“Does this seem to you like I wasn’t affected?” he growls. “It’s taking every shred of my willpower not to throw you over my shoulder, take you to my room, and fuck you senseless.”
“Wait. You still have my underwear.” He pats his jacket pocket with a feral smile. “It’s mine now.”
“I don’t belong to you, Aurora Prince. There’s no need for this act.”
“I just had my tongue inside you, Inmate. Didn’t you know that Fae are very territorial?”
“I think I’ll have him killed.” Nadir takes a casual sip of his drink, and I choke on mine.
“Is this what you’re going to be like now?” “This is how I always was. I’m just not hiding it anymore.”
Still, I can’t shake the feeling that he’s going to ruin me.
“You’re going to ruin me, too, Inmate,” he says softly, making me realize I just said at least part of that out loud. “Lucky for you, we’ll go down in the blaze together.”
“But I was stronger. I held out.”
Lightning. It’s red and it can destroy practically anything.
“It’s not ugly at all. It’s noble.”
“It speaks to something important about your character that you wear it so proudly. I’ve never, for one moment, thought it was ugly. I remember the first time I saw you at the ball, how beautiful you were.”
OKAY NADIR IS PERFECT
“I’m going to take him apart piece by piece. It’s always been my deepest desire, but now, it’s a need more violent than the need to draw air from the bottom of a lake. I’ll make him hurt.”
as soon as she was sent away, the Aurora Torch went haywire.”
“It lit up, sparking colorful flames that nearly burned down the throne room when they caught the curtains. No one had ever seen it do that before.
“The ascension bond is truly binding. They can feel each other’s emotions, and they can’t ever be too far apart.
“And you’re wrong. There’s one other person I care about.” “Who?” I ask. “You.”
It’s a direct contrast to the Sun Palace, but there is also something monumental about this place. Something profound in the absence of light.
“Is it supposed to do that?” He shakes his head. “Sure, but usually only for the ascended.”
The floors are covered in rainbow glass, and there don’t seem to be any walls. Just stretches of blurred color that fling out into the distance.
My loyalty is first to Ouranos and to my goddess Zerra, Your Majesty. Then to my king.
But…that way lies only heartbreak, Your Majesty. That way lies only ruin.
Sex has never been about love for me. It’s been about survival, and often, pleasure. Tonight, it will straddle the line of both.
I should tell him to stop, but I love the way he makes it sound. Like it’s always been waiting for me and all I have to do is walk up and take it.
As much as I hate him, I also can’t stop wanting to touch him. It’s become a fundamental need as important as water and air.
“Oh, I’m Inmate again? I was a good girl a minute ago.”
“We are not even. We’re not even until I make you come at least five times to my one.
“One to one, Prince,” I say, trying to sound like I mean it. “And it’s only you who has trouble remembering my name.”
I hope he doesn’t notice the shiver that traveled over my skin when he growled my name.
POSSUM SCREAM
She glares at me, fierce defiance in her expression. This is when she’s her most radiant. When I’d gladly fall to my knees and destroy entire continents if she asked. Even if she didn’t.
He’d tried to break her and failed. Anyone could see that.
Red. The color of home. Of the legacy that was taken. Of the rivers of blood that will run from the Aurora King when I finally get my revenge.
The royal family wears black. Nadir’s companions wear black. But I am not his conquest. I am not his to claim. I’m not part of their royal line. I have my own family. And I am my own fucking castle.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
“Let you lead?” I joke as he laces his fingers through mine. “I don’t know about that.” “Just for the dance. I promise.”
The bonding has always favored one side and was never meant to be a union of equals.
when two Primaries bond, their magic can become erratic unless both are powerful enough to control it.
It was said that mates who didn’t bond would eventually succumb to permanent death.
the Artefacts make their choices based on many factors.”
“The Ark of the Coeur will be yours once this is over. I swear it.”
“You’ll just sit there like a queen while I worship you from my knees.”
