Goldfinch (The Plated Prisoner, #6)

by Raven Kennedy

“I will find you. I will find you in that life. I fucking promise you that. But you have to go. Please, baby.”

I was always meant to find her. To see her.

As long as there is breath in my lungs and a heart in my chest, I will fight for her with everything that I am.

Our souls are now bound together. Our lives forever connected. Our magic entwined. It means that she and I are a match fated by the goddesses. It means that we have been given the greatest gift ever bestowed on a fae. It means that she’s mine.

You have your own light, little sun. So you must carry it with you when it grows dark.

When tears are like starfall, when bleak is like night, We remember the dawn that will bring back the light.

might not know anything else yet, but I do know this truth with innate certainty. My name is Auren Turley. And I am stronger than the dark.

When a woman faces an impossible problem, whether she be mother or queen, she must find a solution. She must find a way.

I told her I’d be the villain for her, and I was. Now, I need to also be the hero she would want me to be.

There is no growth without rot. There is no sun without the dark sky. And there is no me without her.

“I’ll always find you, Goldfinch.” Always.

“Oh, Goldfinch. My love for you consumes every part of my soul. It’s in every word, every movement. With each morning that dawns and every night that falls. You are completely mine, and I am yours, and that is all I ever need in this life and all the others.” I kiss her forehead, tears burning in my eyes. “I love you, Auren.”

“Sometimes, our mistakes are so big that when they land, the consequences stretch out farther than you ever could’ve imagined.”

“That one kill can actually lead to life,”

“And that something that seems so cold can actually be the warmest thing you’ll ever feel.”

She’s the one who rules, and I couldn’t be more fucking proud.

Lyäri Nōhcra. No longer the golden one gone, but… The golden one who rules.

“My foretelling, my life’s prophecy, my purpose, my divined was you,” I choke out. “Always you.”

“You were always mine, and I was always meant to love you with every single part of my existence.” Always.

“I love you, Goldfinch. In every life,” I choke out, my tears falling onto her cheek. “I love you…in them…all,” she says back, her voice a struggled whisper. A shaken breath.

“You are the most important part of myself. So long as I have you, I’m whole.”

“The golden one and the deathly flight,”