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“I was prepared to plead.” She gives me a look. “You would not.” “Oh, darling, I would do so much worse if only you asked.” I tuck a strand of hair behind her ear with a smile. “Or, even more difficult, so much better.”
“you’re not nearly as terrifying as you seem.” “Not to you. Never to you.”
My favorite color is a shade of her, a sliver of the vibrance she exudes. And I will gladly drown, gladly burn, gladly fall into those blue eyes until the day she looks at me for the last time.
The yearning has me melting
“Don’t look at me like that,” she breathes. My lips twitch. “This is the only way I’ve ever looked at you, darling.”
I stop suddenly, my eyes scanning her face, the bridge of her nose— There can’t be more than ten. I jerk back, staring at the body beside me. This is not my Pae.
Omg
I have been drugged. All so someone could rip her from my bed.
Fuckers
I unleash that piece of myself that Father carved into me. That lethal sliver of darkness he once commanded at will, having known it by name. Created it in the depths of his dungeons, in every one of my fears, in a shadowed home with my sword through an innocent man’s chest. It’s a piece of Death himself that lives within me. And now, I command it.
I can no longer breathe, but I’ve faced far worse from my own father.
My sword plunges into his heart at the same moment he throws Paedyn over the railing.
Omg
I don’t think. I don’t breathe. I don’t hesitate to leave my sword buried in the sailor and dive toward the railing.
She’s falling to h...
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She stares at me with a sort of fear I’ve never seen her wear. And maybe I’m looking at her the same, like nothing has ever terrified me more than losing her.
The last thing I see is the terror on his face. Then I’m falling again.
I am going to drown. Death will meet me in this watery grave, grinning as he snatches my soul from the sea.
I wanted Kai’s gray gaze to be the last thing to take my breath away, n...
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Hands bound behind my back, I can do nothing but stare at the popping thread as Kai strains to lift me.
“I’ve got you,” he pants against my ear. “I’ve got you, Pae.”
The realization that I’m likely sitting in their blood doesn’t torment me as much as I thought it would. In fact, I believe I could bathe in their remains for being the reason my last piece of Adena is destroyed.
just like that, I’m one step closer to overcoming this choking fear of blood.
“I’m okay. I’m alive.” Tears are pricking my eyes again. “Because of you.”
“I promised to save your life again and again.
whether you allow me to stay in it or not.”
“you’re okay with the spilling of so much blood?” I run a finger down my blade before flicking my eyes up to his. “It depends on whose blood.”
this is what keeps sailors setting off for a horizon they likely won’t meet before their doom. Adventure.
especially not when I’m with you. What if I wish to threaten your life?” “Even after I just saved yours?”
I would do it all again just to hear you threaten my life.” “That seems foolish,” I breathe. “Then it’s fitting.” He runs a thumb over my bottom lip. “Seeing that I am a fool.”
They depend on their own might, their own will. And I admire that far more than unearned strength.
He enjoys being feared.
I am something less than fear and power and Elite.
“I’ve fought to survive every day. Just like all of you. And I will do anything to see Ilya become free and welcoming again.”
Every eye is trained on him, every weapon at the ready to defend themselves from the Elite that stepped straight out of a bedtime story they tell their children.
The sun seems to shine only for me, painting my skin in a soft glow and wrapping its rays around me.
“Why, do I not look all right?” “Gray, you always look far more than all right.”
“Quite the gentleman you’ve become,” I croon. “Only for you.”
“I have no idea who to be or what to say. Better yet, I have no idea how to speak to a queen, let alone be one.”
“You’re the leader you always wanted for Ilya. You’re our Silver Savior.”
Everything here is gleaming and simple and crawling with delicacy. There is no show of strength, no obvious need for attention. And its simplicity is breathtaking.
I welcome the fact that you need me. The powerful, arrogant Ilya—brought to its knees.”
“You remind me of myself. So youthful. So determined. I only hope that drive doesn’t darken you.”
I know what darkness she speaks of, feel it festering in the gaping hole of my heart where Adena once lived. And for the sake of her memory, her goodness, I shove it down.
“Again, thank you, Your Majesty.” “Yes, yes, I’m magnificent.”
Lmaooo
The few trees that sway back here are clustered close to the white stone, one of which even brushes against Pae’s window. And now I’ve climbed it for her.
Omgggg
might have missed you a little.”
if I say that this could be your final night alive?” “Darling”—she flicks my nose lightly, wearing a cool smile—“every night could be my last.”
It might just be my blackened heart or stained soul. Or perhaps it’s the piece of me that belongs to her, and I’m simply feeling a sliver of the pain she possesses.
“Don’t leave me. Please. Especially not now, but please not ever.” “Never,”
“You can’t leave me. I don’t have enough room in my heart for the both of you.”
“Death himself couldn’t drag m...
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“So you’re in love with your brother’s betrothed?”
“There is love within duty, and duty within love. You can’t have one without the other, and yet”—she takes a deep breath, her gaze distant—“you can never truly have both. So choose, Kai Azer. The girl. Or power. And whether or not she is worth the destruction of everything you are.”
