More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
And if her first two liaisons are any indication of what we might expect… Gods help her, my love, I’m afraid our daughter has atrocious taste in
men.
Holy Dunne, she wielded lightning. But venin aren’t supposed to have signets…let alone mine.
“Now tell me, which chose you first? The one who gifted you the power of the sky? Or the irid?”
Wtf is an iris?!?!
am an irid scorpiontail.”
Mortal. As opposed to what? Immortal? How fucking old is she?
You might be angry when you realize I didn’t wake you to say goodbye. But it’s only because I no longer fully trust my ability to walk away. —Recovered Correspondence of His Grace, Lieutenant Xaden Riorson, Sixteenth Duke of Tyrrendor, to Cadet Violet Sorrengail
There’s a flash of something…cold in his eyes, but it’s gone with a single blink. Huh.
“You’re going to be the death of me.”
“Yeah, I picked up on that.” His brow knits as he nods. “I picked up on a lot of things he was thinking.” I blink. “That’s not how your signet—”
feels so right to be in his arms. “Because it is,” he says, holding me tighter.
My brow furrows at the unknown term: Amaralis.
Amber.
Silver.
Weeks. She knew we were coming.
For the nights I can’t sleep next to you. — X
“It’s how you save Tyrrendor.” Aaric’s voice drops to a whisper.
“How did you replace the power you lost?” Mira asks quickly.
I wrench my gaze back to hers. “I…didn’t. What are you talking about?”
She stares at the gray handprint that scars his forearm. “I don’t want to do that. Become that.”
Weird. There’s no mark at the back of his neck like he carries on his palm. There hadn’t been one on Dain’s wrist, either.
The bond between Berwyn and me is the kind that should never exist,
How could he do this? Choose this after watching me stumble and fall over the last five months. How could he willingly walk the path I’ve fought like hell to leave? He’s the last person I ever
would have expected to turn, and yet here we are. I can’t let Sgaeyl die. Can’t leave him to stumble down the same path I did. Can’t allow my friends to perish because I selfishly want to keep Violet by my side. A clamoring,
ripping their runestones free.
and a shape moves in the shadows to the right.
