The Audient and The Phantom Night (Aeglecian Seas, #1)

by Sadie Hewitt

“My help isn’t offered as a reward for their kindness. They need a safe place to stay and I’ll give it to them.”

He was the most beautiful man she had ever seen. Maddeningly beautiful— dangerous and unforgiving.

“I kissed you, because I wanted to. Because you looked ruthless while the city burned to the ground behind you. And I really like ruthless things.”

It was important, Fenna knew, that she didn’t try to separate Devlin into different people. He was dangerous and he was cruel and he was passionate and he was thoughtful.

“Romance stories give us proper insight into our perceived notion of communication with our partners and renew our belief that life has meaning beyond ourselves,”

“We are one, her and I, pieces once spread through the universe that are finally joined in this lifetime. And, despite being given to each other through a binding of the gods, I love her,” Devlin finally said, searching Dasos’s features for a hint of a crack beneath the mask of malice he wore. “And that love is strong enough to know that it means I cannot have her.”

“Because I would destroy anything to protect you, even if that meant destroying you to protect you from yourself,” Dasos spat,

“Time is a funny thing, isn’t it? You can’t hold it, and you can’t see it. But it marches on, content to pillage and pilfer until there is nothing left of you.”