“So you can chain me to a bed? So you can whip me until I lose consciousness? Hells, where do I sign our agreement?” “You forget, little raven, I had to break you into submission to me. The moves we were going to make were too precarious to have your loyalty divided between me and your brother. If Anneli had never found you, we would be seated on thrones right now. Happy. Powerful.” “I would be dead.” Never would I forget the dark places my mind had gone during those nights, bleeding and broken. “I would’ve fallen on a blade myself all to be rid of you.”
