Curse of Shadows and Thorns (The Broken Kingdoms, #1)

by L.J. Andrews

“Why do you come so close to me?” I swallowed past the stickiness in my throat. “Why do you . . . touch me the way you do?” With lips close to my ear, he said, “Would you like me to stop?”

Release the past and trust those undeserving of it.”

You steal my words,”

“I ask how I am to give you to some fool because I do not know how. How am I to accomplish anything I set out to do here when my heart burns to have you for myself?”

He tasted like rain and honey.

Gods, Elise. This . . . you mean everything.”

Legion was the Blood Wraith.

Trust those undeserving of it.

“No need for that. I had hoped you’d return. I’d hoped to see you again. So much has changed, you see.” “Yes,” I said, face in the dirt. “You committed regicide. How noble of you.”

His own blood had broken his own curse.