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“Not a fucking professor—” “Just wanted to clear that up,” Xaden interrupts, then lifts me into his arms. “We’ll see you once we’re rested.” He takes off past Tecarus, striding down the hall. “What are you doing?” I hiss. “Doubling up as ordered,” Xaden
HAHAHH I LOVE HIMMM
“I’m done sleeping in a bed that doesn’t have you in it.”
Hes suuuuch a lover boy
“Or your signet is growing.”
NOW HE CAN READ MINDS FULLY
not make a deal you cannot keep.”
Feels foreshadowing
“Do not go any deeper than your claws!”
Hes sucb a dad
and one rather pompous viscount.
Hes a gay man
There is a saying in Deverelli: The word is the blood. When they make a trade, broker a deal, it is considered law. I cannot help but wonder what part of the deal the Krovlan rebels did not uphold.
cloth merchant, and I find myself staring at a bolt of shimmering black silk so diaphanous it’s almost silver.
Legit stole from assassins blade
“And my home is the first.” Unh. Yeah, I flat-out liquefy.
Real
“Was that a compliment? What the fuck is going on?” Dain asks, his gaze flying to mine. “Did you give him something?”
HAHAHA
“If we have to,” Mira says,
Lmfaoooo shes fed up
“I warned you,” Xaden says as the man hits his knees. “Your error was changing your assessment to targeting me as the threat and letting your eyes off her.”
“She only wounded you, but I’ll kill you if you take another step toward her, and it turns out that’s bad for international relations.”
yeuuuhhh
“And you must be Asher Sorrengail’s daughter, here to collect the books he wrote for you.”
Omg
She won’t understand why you’ve kept her in the dark. You left too soon, left too many of your plans unfinished.
Omg she knew
My brow furrows at the unknown term: Amaralis.
Have to admit, that kind of confident violence isn’t what I pictured when Asher talked about you, but the brown hair, those…I guess they’re brown eyes, and how utterly smitten he predicted you two would eventually be for each other? Well, he described you almost perfectly, Dain Aetos.”
SHUTUPPP HAHAHAHA
“I can’t. I just can’t. I need a second.”
Shes so me for this
He left the last of it with me almost four years ago with explicit instructions that you only be given it if you had attained the intelligence and understanding you would need to comprehend it.”
“Oh, wait until you realize that your dad knows my dad’s book has something to do with feathertails, which means Dad knew to stop trusting him at some point,” I add.
Why was Dad so adamant only I collect them?
Yea why
“Because I’m done being polite.”
YES GAWD
Confiscated Correspondence of Fen Riorson to Unknown Intended Recipient
“There’s no magic here,” he says again, lowering his head, ghosting his lips over mine. “I can fuck you as many times as we want, as many times as you can take, and I can’t lose control.”
Now, I have about six weeks to make up for, and love, we’re wasting time.”
alexa play that should be me
“I love having every part of you when we’re like this.”
“Fuck, you feel so damned good. I’m never giving you up. You know that, right? You had your chance to run. You should have run, Vi.” He punctuates each claim with a harder, deeper thrust
retrieves a pillow, then slides it under my hips.
damn rebecca THE PILLOW TRICK
“You have to let go for me, love.”
“My consort,” Xaden replies casually. “Violet Sorrengail.”
Omg buy her a ring first
“And consort?” I whisper. “We aren’t married.” He fucking smirks. “I’ve noticed. But ‘girlfriend’ is missing that permanent tone.
Xadennnnnnn
I know your skill with a dagger. I’m not discounting your ability to protect yourself, but for the good of my sanity while I try to get Halden out of whatever mess he’s created, will you please stay by my side?”
“It’s Sorrengail,” he corrects Blue Sash.
GET HIS WOMANS NAME RIGHG
Guess my father wasn’t the only one keeping secrets.
“My loyalty is to Violet first above everything, everyone else,” Xaden says. “Then Tyrrendor. Then Navarre in the moments it’s worthy—usually when Violet is in residence.”
I.love.him.
Captain Anna Winshire’s head lies on the plate between Halden and Tecarus, her short, strawberry-blond curls unmistakable.
OH HELLL NO
Halden didn’t just know; he’s been playing a starring role.
He unbuttons the top flap of his rucksack and pulls it back slowly, revealing an inch of an emerald-studded hilt that steals my breath. It looks too much like the dagger to be a coincidence.
Omg its like he knew
Sometimes diplomacy is best served at swordpoint.
ok perriod
“I resent the implication that I am given to melodramatics,” he replies,
“Xaden?” I whisper. “It’s nothing. Really. I’ve had worse on a sparring mat.” “They’re all fucking dead.” His
HE DONT PLAY BOUT HIS WOMANNNN EYUHHH
“They hurt you,” he whispers without apology. “They were going to kill you.”
she holds Shira delicately between her front four teeth, the snarling cat’s claws safely tucked outside so she can’t cause any damage. Andarna even has her lips puckered so the little cat doesn’t get drenched in dragon saliva. How thoughtful.
MY DARNYYY
“You see, that’s my little one.”
marveling at how the shades of color graduate from the darkest onyx on bottom to the brightest silvers on top,
“If you are amenable, there is another trade I might be able to broker for you.” “I’m listening.”
NO DONT
Second Lieutenant Asher Daxton
Why the different name?
“He wanted you to trade your and Xaden’s…services…for weaponry?”
“Good thing I fuck like a third.” Ridoc grins.
RIDOC I-
“Wanting you as a weapon is weird. They don’t have magic,” Cat says
No so true like the math isnt mathing
