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“You’re not a fuckup. You’re just success-challenged.”
“I’ve never been kidnapped before,” I cut him off. “I’m sorry if I’m inconveniencing you.”
Sex is not part of our arrangement. No offense, but you’re not my type.”
“Fae existed long before human stories. Our world was civilized millennia before yours—”
Penumbra’ means shadow. When an heir to the throne is born, a child born on the same day at the same time is chosen to be raised alongside him as a companion.”
Apparently, the fae had no issues with abduction.
“Tonight is Mabon. There’s Samhain, Saturnalia, Yule.” She sighed heavily at my blank look. “Mabon is the autumnal Equinox. That’s tonight. You call the others Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.”
You have a month and a day to break the bargain. Before then, if you can prove to me that you not only know what I stand to gain from this bargain but also that I will never get it from you, I will release you.”
“Paint fae as the villains if you like, but humans are their own worst enemies. They crave happiness so desperately that they’ll do anything for a moment of it, even if it’s going to destroy them.”
“Worrying is expensive. It costs you the one thing you can’t get back. Time.”
“There are no good or bad men. No black or white. We are all just a shade of gray. A collection of our choices, our hopes, our desires.
“But our world is light and shadow. We are light and shadow. They are the very elements of our magic. One cannot exist without the other. It is in every one of us. We have to embrace the balancing act even when it feels impossible.
