Night of Masks and Knives (The Broken Kingdoms, #4)

by L.J. Andrews

Time for my vengeance had come and gone too many times. I would take it now.

I hope the gods curse you for this.” ″Ah, never fear, they often do.”

Lynx wasn’t one to talk a great deal. Truth be told, beneath all his meat was a man who spent a great deal of time lost in books and thoughts of the stars and how they formed, how the world turned, how the seas shifted currents. He was a puzzler, a poetic. But brutal in the same breath.

Aw

Children do not just disappear as though they never existed.”

“I already decided I’m takin’ vows with you, stupid. You gotta kiss during the vow stuff, and I already have with you.” He scratched his head. “You weren’t so bad at it, so it wouldn’t be too gross doing it again.

Lol so cute

The thought of anyone knowing how soft her skin was, or how the curves of her body felt beneath their hands left me sick with a lust for blood. I was a damn fool.

Walls, armor, and pain spoke. Everything but the truth.

″Go to the hells,” Doft snapped.” ″I’ve been, many times; terribly ugly this time of season.”

″Crack your sharp tongue all you want. To me you’ll always be nothing but a skinny boy, crying for his girl.” My chest squeezed hard enough I thought it might snap a rib. His girl. The way Kase spared the briefest glance over his shoulder, told me what I needed to know. He’d cried out for me, and I never came.

My heart just broke a lil bit

I thought if you hated what I’d become, we would remain distant, and you would not unravel everything I buried long ago.” ″Did it work?” ″No.” I whispered. “You’ve always been my undoing.”

Niklas beamed at his wife like the world existed merely to have her in it.

I want to read their storyyyy

“Everything I want is all that you are.”

Ruin me. Brutalize me. Just give me her.

The plan had not unfolded right. We’d trusted the wrong people, but in the end, it would be worth it if she lived another day. I could die for all I cared. I’d loved her, and had loved her well. For me, it was enough.