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But some, like you, start out pretty pure. And then by their thirties, they’re full of bitterness and fighting it the best way they know how. By their forties, they just don’t give a shit anymore. You know?
Wow, really making me look forward to turning 30 next year…
“Oh, no, sweetie. He’s considered strong among their kind. It’s just Ravenar that is…abnormally well connected to the Void,” Artemis said.
Wow. Shadow Daddy indeed.
I just knew that all these secrets were going to come down on my head one day, and I prayed to any god who listened that I was strong enough to handle it.
Foreshadow Alert!
“It’s been a while since I’ve read anything for fun.” “You should. Stories are food for the soul.” I believed that wholeheartedly.
Damn right <3
Beatrix arched a brow. “Do you take your truths raw or sugarcoated?”
Raw please
I laughed coldly. “Oh, they have a lot to say about Shade.” Everybody had something to say about Shade. “Don’t listen to them. In my experience? He’s the most honorable Elysean in Idaea,” she whispered, taking me off guard once more.
Beatrix is the bomb. Realest bitch around
On the godstone that was pulsating with all the lights of the rainbow now, alive in my hand like I’d never seen an opal do before. It was breathing, or so it felt to me until… It broke.
AH WTF IS GOING ON
The nightmares haunted me worse than the dream weaver. So many of them, so many different times, different people, different voices—but they all told me the same thing: do not use your magic. Do not ever use your magic, child. Whatever you do, stay as far away from them as you can.
I have so many questions WHEN WILL WE LEARN WHAT THESE "nightmares" MEAN
“But your godlight couldn’t be contained by the godstone as it should have been. It was too much. Way too much.” At that, she smiled. “Which I guess I should have expected. That’s the reason I’m even here—that
Too hot to handle
I was just going to relax until Shade came to find me. I’d decided not to tell him yet. I’d decided to keep it to myself for a little while longer, just so he didn’t worry.
Lol fat chance of it playing out like that
“I wish you’d told me, but it’s still your decision to make. You don’t owe anybody any explanation about that, Snowflake. Not even me.”
Fucking snaps for our guy, damn right it is!
“There’s nothing in the world like you, Snowflake,” he whispered against my lips.
My heart!!!!
“Sera Sinclair. The godless mortal is actually our damn savior—who woulda thunk?” said David, and people laughed. “But a Cerberus, too? My, my. Makes me want to make you my wife.”
BARF. Eat dicks David, you still suck ass
“She almost did it once simply by not talking to me at all. But if she actually says words that she can’t take back? It will be done. She’ll ruin me completely. She has way too much power still.”
PROTECT MAX AT ALL COSTS.
By the middle of the next week, my body was used to the routine—to the massive amounts of energy spent, especially with Shade most nights.
Hello there lol
All in all, it was a pretty good first couple of weeks.
Famous last words. Things are about to go to shit then
Instead, I saw my back with no daemon in sight. I saw the wings made out of icy blue light coming out of me. Me. My back. They were coming out of me.
WINGS?! WHAAATTT
It crumbled, the darkness, like it had been liquid and then in the heat of that blue light, it dried up and broke and was reduced to ashes as it slowly revealed my room underneath it… And Shade. Shade was on the floor, choking on thin air, eyes black and the skin around his eyes the same color.
NO NOT THE SHADOW DADDY IT HURTS HIM
“Don’t…don’t…” Shade whispered, struggling to speak still. “Don’t say a word.” “Shade,” I breathed, kissing his dry lips. “Not a word,” he told me. “To anyone.”
SHIT THIS IS SERIOUS
“Don’t worry. I won’t be going near him again anytime soon.” My voice broke, and a billion tears slipped out of my eyes all at once,
DEVASTATING
But you’re wrong about Tobias having it. He’s actually my uncle. Mom’s brother. I remember his ruby—it was even smaller than the one my dad carried around most times.”
SO TOBIAS IS MAXS UNCLE
“Peter was already causing trouble since he was a kid. His father, my uncle’s best friend since childhood, died at a very young age and basically left him in charge of the kid. He crashed his car into a statue one night because he was high and drunk when driving. He died on the spot.”
HOLY FUCKING SHIT PETER IS THE GODSON
Peter was Tobias’s godson. Peter, who’d been playing with fire in the middle of the street, drunk, and had burned my parents’ car. Peter, who’d killed them, and me, too. Peter, who was no longer alive and hadn’t been for a long time now.
Absolutely gutting!! Fuck!!!
But the ritual involves a lot of magic, a sacrifice willingly given from the healer, and an Elysean—that’s it,” Althea said.
WHAT?!?!
Hector of Phaethon’s bloodline, whose eyes brightened up like Christmas trees when he saw me. “Sera,” he said, like he couldn’t believe his damn luck.
This motherfucker…
Then Shade said, “That you were always Elysean.”
HOLY FUCKING SHIRT BALLS
“Yes, Snowflake. He stabbed me, and then my father tried to save me, so he put his godstone in my back. Right on the knife wound, as deep inside me as he could push it. Then I passed out, and the opal on my back absorbed my magic, stored it inside it. My father was in a coma for three months. He never really recovered. He died two years later.”
My gods… poor Shade. Heart broken for our guy
“I’ve never told you this before because I know you know it, but I love you, my beautiful Snowflake. I love your light and your dark. I love your glow and your tears. I’ll bring the whole world to their knees for you.”
SOBBING REAL TEARS.
I barely shook my head. “Ready for…what?” I choked, and the words were slurred together, but she understood. “To evolve,” she told me,
Into what?!?!
“Oh, nonsense,” she said, waving me off. “You never hated Elyseans. You hated what they represented. You hated that they took away your choices—you’re a strong spirit, dear. You like to make your choices yourself, as you have. Look at you.”
EEDA YOU BRILLIANT FUCKING WOMAN
“This is bigger than you and the midnight caster and anyone else—that’s what you should understand, Sera. You have great power, and I don’t think you need me to tell you what else comes with that.”
Could it be… "GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!"-RIP uncle Ben
thank you, Gaea. Gaea, as in Mother Earth. Gaea, as in the true mother of us all.
Gaea, from the early epigraphs! How the turn tables!!!
Arti slowly took the diamond from my hand and raised it up to the ceiling. “You are Sedorah Sinclair, the first of House Diamond.”
BAH DA DA DAH!
“Then I’ll tie you to my bed and worship every inch of your body the way I do in my mind,” he whispered, and good thing I wasn’t standing because my legs were so weak. “I’ll keep going until you forget that word for good.”
SHADOW DADDY. Pft pft pft
“You look proper Elysean, Sinclair!” I turned around to find Ethan standing in front of the open door to his room, with Nick right in front of him, trying to fix a green handkerchief on the breast pocket of his crème-colored suit.
I love this little trio has grown up over the year
“A little birdie told us about the deal you made with the goddess,” Nick said with a grin. He looked so different from the boy he had been a year ago. They both did—I wasn’t the only one who’d changed so completely. “We wouldn’t have made it without you,” Ethan told me, and it was all I could do not to burst into tears when I took the flowers.
Heart clenching in a good way
“It was everything, actually,” said Nick.
Love this exchange :)
I’d noticed how much more often they hung out together lately, but I never knew they were so in-tune with each-other before. Had they really become friends?
WHAT ABOUT MORE THAN FRIENDS???
Shade suddenly came closer, kissed my cheek lightning fast, and whispered, “I bet that red lipstick will look great wrapped around my cock. I can’t wait to see it.”
*SPITS OUT DRINK. KNEES QUAKE* pft pft pft
The ceremony began in ten minutes. We all seemed to be in a great mood.
ALARM BELLS OF FORESHADOWING
He was smiling brightly at her like he was proud. “You got this, Firecracker. Go fire ‘em up,” he told her. The next second, Mave let go of his hands, grabbed his face and kissed him.
FUCKING FINALLY!!!
Now it was showing footage of me. It was showing footage of me through what looked like a window, the white curtain pulled to the side enough to reveal my face perfectly well. And to reveal the face of Alan Roux,
OH SHIT OH FUCK. HYPERVENTILATING
The goddess Mnemosyne showed me what happened that night—I saw you. You brought me back, and I— The screen went dark, black smoke and ribbons of darkness coming out of it as it fried from the inside.
Shade stopped it before it finished but too much damage has been done!! FUCK
the ruby around Carmine’s neck was about to fucking blind us with that blinking red light. She raised her finger toward me from the podium, looking more an animal, a lioness, than human. “Grab her!” she hissed, and a second later, Brons were entering the open double doors like they’d materialized out of thin fucking air.
CARMINE IS PISSED AND ACTING PSYCHO
A fully grown, three-headed hellhound almost twice the size of Mors, wearing snowflake collars around her necks was standing on the table with her back turned to me.
OREO WILL NOT LET YOU TOUCH OUR GIRL
I looked at Max as he was being dragged toward the doors by Mave, and his eyes were on me, too. So many questions in them, but the betrayal that reflected back to me was like a knife through my heart. I’m so, so sorry, Max…
My heart breaks for Max too
