Goldfinch (The Plated Prisoner, #6)

by Raven Kennedy

Queen Kaila and her brother Manu are here.” My head snaps over to him. “What?” He points at me. “But you can’t kill him. Slade gave them a pardon, remember?” “You see Slade here?” I retort with an angry growl. “It’s their fault Rissa almost died. So I’ll kill them if she fucking wants me to.” I look down at her expectantly. I told her to give me a name, so I wait for her to part those pretty lips and say it so I can fucking end them— She shrugs. “All is forgiven.” I have to do a double take. “Ex-fucking-scuse me?” Rissa gives me a scathing look. “We’re in the middle of a war, Captain. Stop threatening people on my behalf, because we don’t have time for that. The queen is obviously here to help. Even I know we have to be politically sensitive about these things. Correct?” she asks, and Judd nods in confirmation. “There. See?” “No, I don’t fucking see,” I bite out. “I want to kill them for what they did to you.” She rolls her eyes. It makes me hard as a rock because that’s what this infuriating woman does to me. “Well, too bad. You can’t,” she says.

This writing is absolute shit