Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)

by Callie Hart

Do you know much about metalwork, Captain? I do. It's under the most unbearable conditions that the sharpest, most dangerous weapons are forged. And we are dangerous, Captain. She’s turned us all into weapons. That is why she won’t suffer my people to live.”

“What about you is magic?” “Everything,” he said, entering the room. “My looks. My sword skills. My personality—” “Your personality is trash.”

thrown me unceremoniously down onto my bed and snarled, “Bad human,” at me.

“I've fucked plenty of humans,” he whispered. “Does that surprise you?”

“I don't hate your kind. I'm just disappointed by how breakable you are. If I held you down and fucked you the way I'm imagining fucking you right now, I doubt that you’d survive it.”

“I wouldn't fuck you—if you were the last living—” “Don't bother.” The words held bite. “Lying is pointless with your heart betraying you so loudly.” “It's beating fast because I'm afraid,” I snapped. “Of me?” Kingfisher huffed a blast of laughter down his nose. “No, you're not. You should be, but you're not. That's one of the things I like most about you.”