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I’d stood silently in the street while my mother’s throat had been split wide open,
“Lissa Fossick. Twenty-four. Single.” I winked at him,
Saeris Fane
“What if they track you down and realize what you can do? The way you can affect metal—”
Sometimes, objects shook around me. Objects made of iron, tin, or gold.
“Even filthy and tired, you’re still beautiful.”
For the next one hundred years, anyone foolish enough to think twice about stealing from me will remember the black day Saeris Fane offended the Zilvaren crown and a hundred thousand people paid the price.”
Broad shoulders. Wet, shoulder-length black hair. Tall. Taller than any other man I’d ever seen. His eyes shone an iridescent, shimmering green,
the most savagely beautiful thing I’d ever seen.
Belikon De Barra,” Everlayne said evenly. “King of the Yvelian Fae.”
It seems highly unlikely that a human woke the quicksilver.”
Kingfisher
“You’re my brother,” Everlayne hissed.
There had once been three branches of Alchemists—Fae who sought to discover the path to immortality, Fae who sought to create and invent by transmuting various metals and ores, and lastly, Fae who sought to cure illness and disease.
“It’s big enough to make you scream and then some.”
Show me that I’m wrong. Show me that you’re tougher than I think you are.”
And then I punched him square in the mouth.
But, of all the beautiful things I had seen, Fisher was the most beautiful of all.
“I don’t hate your kind. I’m just disappointed by how breakable you are. If I held you down and fucked you the way I’m imagining fucking you right now, I doubt that you’d survive it.”
I can smell you, Little Osha, and I’m thinking about drinking the sweet nectar you’re making for me straight from the fucking cup.”
You could kiss me. I’ll just sit here. I won’t move a muscle.”
In the years to come, when I looked back at this moment, I would be glad that I’d taken the leap and jumped. This was the kiss to end all kisses.
“I swore I’d be still while you kissed me. At no point did I promise to exercise restraint if you climbed up into my lap and started grinding yourself against my cock.”
“I go and I try to get your brother. You help me and assist me in any way I ask you to, and you do as you’re told. You agree to this pact?”
“I’ll happily kiss all of your aches and pains better for you once we strike camp. I’ve been told my mouth has healing properties. Especially when administered between a pair of thighs.”
To everyone inside this tavern, he was a living fucking god.
“I’d know the smell of you anywhere. On anyone. I’d know it blind and in the dark. Across a fucking sea. I’d be able to scent you—”
“You could eviscerate a man with that expression. It’s one of the things I love most about you.”
“I can smell you as well as him, Saeris. I wasn’t worried that he’d hurt you. I was asking if you were okay. There’s a difference.”
“I can want to fuck you and still hate you,
“I’m telling you to fuck me, Fisher. I’m asking you to—”
“Because she is moonlight. The mist that shrouds the mountains. The bite of electricity in the air before a storm. The smoke that rolls across a battlefield before the killing starts. You have no idea what she is. What she could be. You should call her Majesty.”
The sound of Fisher’s genuine laughter was rarer than water had ever been back in Zilvaren; it almost brought tears to my eyes to hear it.
I’m going to mark you in every way imaginable, so that everyone knows you’re fucking mine.
He didn’t let go.
See, Little Osha. Just like the butterfly I named you after. So weak. So vulnerable.
Kingfisher looked at me like I was the most astonishing thing he’d ever seen.
but this small, intentional contact between us was the most intimate we’d ever been.
“I was wrong, y’know. You are a good thief.”
“What have I stolen?”
She is the dawn. She is the moon. She is the sky. She is oxygen in our lungs.
Fisher will never forgive me if his sole reason for living is torn to pieces on her first fucking battlefield.”
“She’s honorable and brave, not to mention the most powerful Alchemist ever documented. She disarmed you in half a fucking second if you recall. Who the fuck are you to say she and Fisher don’t belong together?”
I don’t want to go back to Zilvaren anymore. Not forever, anyway. I want to go home, get Hayden and Elroy, and then bring them back here to Yvelia.
true mates were blessed with marks from the Fates.
He smiled when the little fox leaped into his lap and began licking his chin. Actually smiled.
“Hated what you represented.”
“And what was that?”
“Weakness. Vulner...
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“Not you! Me!”
