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She’d spent so many years chasing after distractions. And as she found herself pinned against the wall in an abandoned gallery, she also found herself craving a new one.
the light likely still filtering off her skin, making the cursed shadows in his blood sing in response …
But … it was just the thought of someone else touching her.
IM FIST PUMPING
Andrian’s father, Lord Julian Laurent,
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Losing himself in events that had already happened always seemed safer than dwelling on whatever horrors he might be subjected to in the present.
ANDRIAN 😭😭😭😭
I intend to rule in the way Xara did, the way Qhohena intended. I intend to be the one in power.
you’re naught but a mere speck on our chessboard. I encourage you to tread lightly.”
No. This was not a matter of pride. This was a matter of taking back power from men who never deserved to wield it.
TOPPLE THE PATRIARCHY 🔥🔥🔥
“Perhaps this is why the magic left me early. It no longer wanted to be kept a captive in this palace and wished to find one who possessed the strength to do what it had been created to do.”
He’d told himself the proximity would make it easier for him to avoid running into her unnecessarily. But even he’d known that had been bullshit.
He’d forgotten all she’d stolen from him, all she’d stolen from herself. All he knew was that she was his, and someone had hurt her.
Then he bent down in front of her, swiped an arm behind her knees, and scooped her into his arms.
none of the others looked at her the way he had, that moment he’d burst through the doors of her bedroom.
“You want a distraction, nio? I can give that to you.”
“Your body betrays you, nio. You say you despise me, that you shouldn’t have come here tonight—yet you made that choice, not me. And now I’m here”—he
and I’m calling your bluff.”
“Fine. Call my bluff.”
“But I’m calling yours, too.”
His eyes closed, a low groan rumbling from his throat before he slid them out and whispered a single word. “Svass.”
“I’m not going to let the first time I make you come be on the kitchen counter, nio. I have more plans for you than just that.”
A look that demanded confessions be pulled from his throat, but begged her to look away and forget she’d ever seen them at all.
IM FUCKING GUTTED
“I hated the fire I saw in your eyes. I hated how that fire heated me, melted the wall of ice I’d worked for years to build.
I hated how easily you were able to worm your way into my thoughts without even trying.”
“You will be my undoing, nio. Whenever you think it was you who lost control, remember—it was me who lost control first.”
ANDRIANNNNNN OMG THIS MAN CAN WALK ME LIKE A DOG
her release washed over her in a torrent of silver-gold light. Somewhere, distantly, she thought she heard her voice cry out, but she couldn’t be sure.
“No need to look at me like that, nio. After all, you’re much more tolerable to me like this. On your back and screaming my name.”
“Eyes up here, nio.”
“Fuck you.” She felt his lips twitch against her cheek. “As you wish, My Queen.”
Somewhere, deep in the dark recesses of her mind, Mariah knew there would never be anyone else.
The entire room was lit up by sparkling silver-gold light, the threads of her magic floating idly and peacefully about the room.
When he pressed a light kiss to the bottom of her jaw. “Reisligr, nio.”
She felt … quiet.
The night before, Andrian had been woken by a burning pain on his chest, as if he were being branded, his skin lit on fire and scorched from the outside in.
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I swear upon the depths of Enfara that she will meet a fate worse than death. And you, Andrian—I will make you watch.”
It meant sweet. Like honey.
“Svass” I AM DECEASED
“The second I saw you, not just in the temple but in the palace courtyard, I knew I wouldn’t be able to say no to you. I tried to fight it, trust me.
Qhohena’s magic summoned the dragons.
It was both cold and warm, alive and dead, soft and hard.
“You are one of the reykr, aren’t you? One of the shadow-wielders from Luexrith?”
“My shadows, after all, have been far too eager to taste you. I suppose it’s as good a time as any to indulge them.”
SHUT THE FUCK UPPPP 🥵🥵🥵🥵
“I was furious because I wanted to be the one to make you flush like that in this library.
“Kneel, nio.”
“Good girl.” A firm tendril of darkness gripped her chin, tilting it up.
Andrian’s voice had turned to smoke. “I can always feel everything it does.”
THIS IS THE HOTTEST THING A SHADOW DADDY HAS EVER DONE
“I may not be touching you with my hands, nio, but I can fucking feel you all the same,”
don’t try to stab anyone.” Mariah gave him a feral grin. “But that just takes the fun out of it.”
She didn’t want to think about how that weakness was starting to stare back at her with sinister shadows and tanzanite eyes.
a black that really was the darkest blue when hit by the light.
Like baby boys eyes 🤩🤩
I let the fabric speak to me
She looked like a fallen star, adorned in darkness yet still shining with light and power.
