Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)

by Pierce Brown

“Me. I’m the other choice. Stay for me. Stay for what might be. At the Institute, you made followers of boys and girls who have never known loyalty. If you go to the Academy, you abandon that to be my father’s warlord. That’s not what you are. That is not the man I …” She did not turn, but her face changed as her sentence trailed away, lips drawing a hard line. Love?

The winged girl has become a carrion bird

“If you win, you may request anything of me. If I win, I get the same.”

ArchGovernors of Jupiter’s moons, particularly

“He said he always had his eye on me.” She reaches into her pocket, pulls something out, and drops it onto the floor. “So I took one of his.”