Shadows So Cruel (Court of Ravens, #2)
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And there, right beside her, sat Malyr’s anoa… … preening her damaged feathers.
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“Lady G-Galantia of House Brisden.” Probably. “Daughter of Lord and Lady B-brisden.” Probably not.
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“Bury your thirteen children, Galantia. Do it, and then see what is left to judge of my heart.”
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“The goddess?” “Your mother,” she said. “The fate Lilieth.”
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I needed to find this amulet. And once I found it? I needed to get the fuck away from Lord Brisden.
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“Stop pestering her. It will only get your anoa to escape your form again so he can try to peck your fucking eyes out.” Sebian
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That was before I fell in love with her…
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“You bedded his fated mate, and he caught you, didn’t he?” “Caught me?” Scoffing, I ran my fingers through the anoa’s feathers, searching for broken shafts that needed preening. “Old man, he was there with us.”
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“Leave!” Her stern glare, the same one she’d given me a hundred times, locked onto mine. “Do not make me watch you die… My heart can’t survive it a fourteenth time.” With a sudden surge of strength, she pushed my chest, shoving me backward. “Go!”
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“What is she?” What I’d always hoped she would be. My very own void.
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“I’m not oblivious to the hardships Malyr endured.” But ones suffering in the past could not excuse every misdeed of the present.
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“That kiss was long overdue, and there will be a lot more in the future, if you’ll have me. But just for the record, because I’m not going to risk your doubt again over three fucking words,” he tugged the back of my head, pulling my mouth back to his as he rasped, “I love you.”
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I folded my hands behind my back, carefully breathing past the jealousy over a situation of my own making. I understood that, though my shadows, however, did not, threatening to overwhelm me—to make me do something truly regrettable. To my best friend. Maybe to my mate.
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undergarment.
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Undergarments are new to this book
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I let my thumb trace over the blood-damp silk of the bracelet. Why had I made it? To hand it to her and say, I’m sorry for raping you while I tried to force our bond, so here is a courting gift for you?
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“Why are your shadows attacking you?” “Because only a fourth of them are truly mine.” That man rarely made sense, but now was not the time to solve riddles.
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For a brief, agonizing moment, Aros’ face twisted as if in physical pain.
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Poor guy. He only loved Lorn
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Sebian gave a bemused scoff that had his lips twitch. “I will be the night, the darkest patch of sky around you,” he mocked, but it wasn’t like I hadn’t heard his unkindness back at the spring. “How many days did it take you to come up with those lines?” “Five,”
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Sebian scoffed, the northern territories apparently inconsequential to this war, because that was where he lay sprawled out on the stone table, his arms folded beneath his head as a pillow.
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“I can’t lose you.” A sob broke from my lips, and in that moment, the world broke with it. “I love you.” “And I… I love you. Don’t cry, sweetheart. It’s fated,” Sebian said, his fingertips twitching against my palms as if he meant to hold me tight just one last time. “Take it. Keep something of me. You have to… have to hurry.”
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“So, when that moment comes, one of us will die?” Another tear ran down his cheek. “Yes. One of you has to die for her to live.”
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