Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3)

by Rebecca Yarros

“Well-the-fuck-aware.”

Omg hes pissssst

“But the thought of you being out there, beyond the wards, facing down a known attack of venin, triggered something in me I’ve never felt before. It was hotter than rage, and sharper than fear, and cut deeper than helplessness, all because I couldn’t get to you.”

Omg my honey

“I would have killed anything and anyone in that moment to reach you. No exceptions. I would have channeled every ounce of power beneath my feet without hesitation if it would have landed me at your side.”

RAHHHHH

“You forget that I know your body as well as my own, Vi.” His thumb ghosts across my lips. “Your mouth is swollen, your face is flushed, and your eyes…” He skims his tongue over his lower lip. “They’re all hazy and leaning more toward green than blue. Your pulse is racing, and the way you keep shifting your weight tells me that if I were to strip these pants off you right now, I’d find you more than ready for me.”

This was so fucking hot HELLO

“All I want is to lose myself in you, and I can’t. You are the only person in the world with the power to strip me of every ounce of my control, and the only person I can’t fathom losing

xaden pls lose urself in me

“Initiates, asims—we’re all traceable to one another, but the great hall could fill with Sages and Mavens and I’d never know. Neither would you.”

“Makes you wonder who’s been channeling here for years, doesn’t it? Who’s been trading information for power?”

SOMEBODY MUST BE

“You really are kidding, aren’t you? There’s no prophecy.”

I have a feeling there is

I was reading General Cadao’s journal yesterday, and a whole section of pages is ripped out after he notes that there may have been an outside isle supporting the second Krovlan uprising.”

high-level venin—we believe Sage and Maven—can and do wield signets.”

“I think our relationship just ended.”

NAH CMON

“We live by the Codex—” I try again. “I live by you. When have I ever given a fuck about the Codex or the Code of Conduct?”

luv him

“And my father is clearly just…beyond help in general.”

i feel like hes maven

“You and I are going to have problems,” Captain Grady warns. “Probably.” Xaden nods.

xaden leads the idaf war

“Exactly. Dragons mentioned with isles tells me we should look south.”

“I don’t know the contents of Dad’s research, but I do remember him suddenly going secretive with it about six months before he died.

Alright dad ur sus

“I’m either completely in love with your boyfriend or utterly terrified of him,” Ridoc says under his breath. “Not sure at the moment.” “Both,” Cat answers from his left. “You can be both. Trust me.”

HAHAHA

“That’s far too casual a term

“Why only me?” I ask, turning endlessly to find him. “You need to be able to find me.”

“Because you’re the only one capable of killing me.”

STAHP THIS

Your mother and I trust no one, and neither can you.

"noone" u say?????

First love is irreplaceable.

Weird

“Which I didn’t mind, since my bed is too cold without you physically in it and too quiet without you screaming my name.”

hes legit shameless this man couldbt be hornier

“Knock me out? You’re usually the one begging for mercy a few orgasms in—” “Want to see begging? All I have to do is swirl my tongue around the tip of your—”

GUYYYYYYSS WERE IN PUBLIC

“You started it.” “I’d give anything to be able to finish it.” Xaden’s fingers curl. “You’re going to be the death of me.” “So you keep saying.”

HE HAS BEEN SAYING THIS FOR SO LONG I FEAR IT WILL HAPPEN

“Oh gods, just stop flirting and fuck already,” Ridoc says.

Real

“Garrick’s going to blow you off the mat.” “Now that I might enjoy, depending on the method he chooses—” Ridoc winces. “I’m going to stop talking now.”

HAHAHAH

They’re as green as summer leaves.

Why is she fixating on his eyes so hard this is weiiiirddd

“And the only hair I remember is your professor’s covering your face when I walked in on her riding you. It was auburn, right?”

OOOOP-

“The Amelian Citrine is a lesser-magic amplifier worn by one of the members of the first drift. If you’re willing to retrieve it, I’m willing to order Grady to change courses.” “It’s not that simple. Anca is in occupied territory.”

“Anyone who’s ever dated a rider knows their first priority—their first love—is their dragon.

Omg is the password liliths dragons name

He lifts a hand toward the loosened strands of my braid, but never makes it. Shadows blast straight through the wards and hit Halden in the chest like a battering ram, sending the crown prince of Navarre flying backward—straight into the rock wall. Shit

XADENS JEALOUSSSS

Not just his guard? My eyebrows rise as I glance at her hair. Yep, redheads are definitely his type.

LMFAOOO HES SO SLEEZY

“Let’s get three things straight, Your Highness. First, I have remarkable hearing thanks to the shadows at your very feet. Second, I don’t control Violet. Never have. Never will. But third, and most importantly—” He lowers his voice. “She really, honestly hasn’t thought about you. At least not since the second she set eyes on me.”

BOOOMSHAKALAAKAAAAA

connection between the uprising and the pursuit of feathertails to be both alarming and enlightening.

From Cordyn, book passage to Deverelli—you will be safe beyond the reach of magic there—and quietly seek the merchant Narelle Anselm.

my brightest light.

Trust only Mira.

Hmmmmmmmm interesting

“I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every night, and the blades that feel your hands. So, when the prince of our realm walks into my classroom and starts talking to the woman I love with what can only be considered intense familiarity, and then has the audacity to ask her out right in front of me,

“Stop me if I cross the line.”

Id never stop him

“He’s been a great deal closer when you’ve wielded,” Tairn reminds me, and— Nope, not thinking about how he knows that.

HAHAHAHA

Clutching the necklace in one hand, I take the parchment in the other, noting that it’s addressed to Lightning Wielder. “It was sitting next to the necklace,” Mira says as I open it, and Xaden tenses at my side.

“She knew we’d be there.”

HOW DOES SHE KNOW

only go to war with those you trust implicitly.

Keeps talkin ab trust

“Are you trying to tell me that you can freeze the water in someone’s body

OH SHIT

noting that for once in her life, Mira’s late.

Weird of her to be late of all days

“If I wasn’t in love with you already, I would be now,” Xaden says, crossing his ankles.

He loves a crazy woman

“Right. Because he’s the one I defer to.” Xaden’s gaze swings to me. “When would you like to go?”

giggling n kicking my feeey

“Carrying” is a loose term for the baskets Halden and his guard dangle in, held by the gryphons’ claws.

LMAO PICTURING THIS

“Perhaps you are like Sgaeyl’s kind,”