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The Fort looms closer, and my pulse quickens. Squinting through the shadows, I falter at the unfamiliarity before me. This is not the home I left.
Omg is she finally gonna meet Mak
We hold each other, strangers connected by a mutual love. And when Mak finally pulls away, his eyes rimmed with red, a streak of sunshine falls heavily over our kneeling bodies. The beam of light coats us thoroughly enough to dry the tears staining my cheeks.
Ayooo why am i gettin teary eyed
“I’ve been a bit under the weather recently. It will pass, I’m sure. Now,” Kitt pants, “have you been out here all night?”
Now, please entertain me, darling. I’m bored. What am I to do if not count your freckles?
Literally Kai and his no hobbies except Paedyn
(We need to find you a hobby that does not include counting my freckles. How many are there again? Twenty-three?)
Literally
with Blair’s hold on my body now broken, I nearly fall over. Fire flares around my ankles, crawling up bedposts to swallow us whole. I don’t know how it happened, but I’m suddenly choking
Wait who has fire ability
The only freedom I seek resides in ending the girl who took away my light. I lunge for her. My body crashes into Blair’s,
This is excessive
Thick smoke wafts from my own clothing, my own flesh, but still, I feel nothing.
Tf
by the time I finally got her out… Blair was…” Lenny swallows, his brown eyes shining. “I took care of the body.”
Holy fuck shes dead?!
“No. No, not yet,” he mutters distantly. “It’s not time… I need the right time….”
“What? Kitt, is everything okay?” Those green eyes flick back to mine. He blinks. Then plasters a smile onto his features. “Yes, no need to worry. It seems I need some more sleep.
Wtf
“And it’s a damn good thing I was,” he scolds. “You nearly died, P. And I would have never been able to live with myself if you had.”
Honestly Paedyn put Lenny in danger because Blair’s father could have him killed for not protecting his daughter (if this book made any sense)
Kitt straightens. Lowers himself into that plush seat. Fixes a slight smile onto his features. I blink at the sudden change, bewildered by his—
When inevitability meets its end. When I stare into the face of what it is I love most.
Called it, *rolls eyes* you both could just not do it, ya know
This can’t be happening. Why would Kitt allow this? Kai raises a calming hand. “Paedyn—”
For fucking real how weak is he being with this
I let my hand slowly slide from my aching shoulder and nod ever so slightly. We are enemies here. We are pretend.
Ok but how does it end bc if its staged for you to win thEn Kai cant be seen again?
Through a blurry haze, I see Kai standing over me, his expression unreadable. He’s not himself. It’s as though every emotion has been muted. As though something other than pretend is guiding each blow.
I think this is Mak but I’m choosing to pretend otherwise
Since stealing those silvers from him on Loot to fleeing his pursuit across the Scorches, I have never feared him more than I do in this moment.
I am more than his shadow. I am a moth to his flame. A sob swells in my throat, springing hot tears to my eyes. I can hardly see through the blur of disbelief, but still, I race toward him.
I knew he wasnt dead but his is sad asf an I might have a tear coming out of my eyeball
“But he decided not to kill me,” she murmurs. “He could have killed me. If we hadn’t met, I wonder if things would have been different.”
I’m so mad Mak is dead, so fking sad and so not it for me. Literally takes the two minority characters and kills them
“Take care of her for me,” she whispers atop his pale skin. “Take care of her, Mak.” I almost don’t hear her final, broken whisper. “See you in the sky.”
I HATE THAT IM CRYING
“Jax is practically salivating beside me,” Andy points out with a snort. “Gail, how much longer? He’s scaring me.”
Lmao
The relief in his voice is endearing. “Thank you. I just want a piece of her with me today, you know?”
Sigh I just hate some of these dialogue choices it totally rips me out of the story. It’s like she didn’t even try
There is always the next ceremony.
Wait are you fucking joking? You can’t just be late? It’s your wedding and he asked you to wear something of his mothers for him tf
Kai is nowhere to be found, just as he promised.
You’d think they’d have maid of honors and best men…
He was going to save me.
No he wasn’t he hasn’t done jack shit to fight for you in reality
We are inevitable,
You’re gonna make me kill myself
“I have to do something.”
Maybe you should’ve fking thought about that earlier in the book. FUCK Kai is so annoying
I understand. Our marriage is for Kai as much as it is for Ilya. The Enforcer will never have to take the life of another Ordinary. He will no longer be controlled by guilt or shame. And above all, this kingdom will remain standing.
Crazy but NONE of this is necessary AT ALL. This is the worst logic I ever heard like KITT YOU ARE A KING YOU ACTUALLY CONTROL THE FKING COUNTRY AND HE DIDNT NEED YO FORce KAI INTO ANY THING. KITT MARRYING YOU HAD ZERO CAUSE AND EFFECT ON KAI BEING THE ENFORCER OR ORDINARIES BEING KILLED
“Thank you—” A raspy cough cuts the sentiment short. “Are you”—I spot something that looks suspiciously like blood splatter his handkerchief—“all right?”
Predictable asf not Kitt and his Victorian wasting disease
This was not the king she was meeting. No, the queen would not sneak about the castle with her own husband. She had a lover.
It’s that same smudged handwriting that stains each piece of parchment. I skim through the short letters, each one more cryptic than the last. Time. Place. I love you, always.
I swear to fking god if Pae is related to Kitt and she didn’t write this reveal BEFORE the wedding I’m gonna freak
photograph slips from between my fingers.
Photograph? I didn’t know we had cameras -__-
I stare at the queen. She stares up at one.
She just said a paragraph ago “I stare at a women she stares up at me” mam you didn’t need to say it again with different terms
I’m still studying the photo
It’s actually crazy that she’s calling it a photo/photograph. I know there’s “sights” but it’s never been said that it could be made into a photograph
Or the moment before I’ve fit every observation together, molding the story into place with my mind. Or how a memory resurfaces at the exact moment I need to pick it apart. Because nothing goes unnoticed.
Yep Calum is papa and you’re Kitts half-sister and you just fking married and kissed
“I mean, a Transfer is needed to impress a Sight’s memory onto the page, and it all becomes far more expensive than it’s worth.”
Oh ok this is like a duolingo language bean situation
“And the king’s Mind Reader, feeding him information about the Resistance the entire time. That is why he was always one step ahead.”
“This is more upsetting to you than I thought it would be,” he observes simply.
UM YA YOU HAD YOUR DAUGHTER MARRY HER FKING BROTHER, U SICK FUCKING IMBECILE
“After you killed Queen Iris,” he bites, “the king handed you off to a Silencer. That is when he discovered that an Ordinary—an Ordinary—killed one of the rarest Elites known to Ilya.”
I knew Calum was a piece of shit, but now he’s also a weirdo incest encourager for his own daughter too. Good job bruh
“A Soul.” Calum utters the words he’d read from my mind. “That’s right. The ability to sense another’s emotions and alter them, take them upon herself.
That’s the most rare elite? She’s a manipulative empath?! O…k…?
“You were supposed to be formidable. But you are nothing.”
This is crazy
all for you to be nothing! A worthless Ordinary!” The scar burns above my heart.
So why did you push for her to be Queen then?! Tf?!
“I thought the queen died giving birth to Kitt?”
It’s crazy she’s not putting it together that she’s married to her brother rn
“That is why you were asking about my father’s journals,” I pant. “You wanted to know if he wrote that secret something down.”
“The king didn’t want to wipe out the Resistance when he first found out,” I mutter. “He wanted it to grow, wanted to gather all the Ordinaries in one place.” My gaze flicks to Calum’s while my mind wanders to that battle at the Bowl. “And you were his spy.”
Huh
You don’t care about the Ordinaries. You never have. Not after one killed your lover.”
YOU DONT NEED TO SPELL THIS OUT FOR ME JESUS FKING CHRIST
“And I am.” Calum laces those long fingers behind his back. “Very proud of the puppet you became for me.”
This is so unrealistic to me, personally, that he's so outwardly villainous now?? just feels cartoony asf
“Why would you want an Ordinary on the throne?” “I have great plans for you, Paedyn.”
And still she hasnt put it together that her and Kitt are fking related. Wouldn’t that be the first thought you have like oh I’m the princess and there’s two brothers who were Princes’ one of them has the same mom as me and I’m married to him!!! Like???
think of the moments spent with Calum, yes, but more importantly, the ones without. He was always in the background, always whispering into someone’s ear.
Ive been saying this shit, bro has been off from the jump
