Kingdom of Shadows and Wings (Dragons of Tirene, #1)

by Nina Frost

love my mother. I just wish her love wasn’t so godsdamned suffocating.

“It’s okay, you know. To love someone and still hate their choices and how they treat you. Family is complicated.”

“Fuck it.”

That man watches you the way a mutt watches a roast chicken…like he wants to devour you.”

“Yes, sir.” He leans forward, his hot breath feathering against my cheek. “Watch how you say that, Duchess, or one day you’re going to get more than you bargained for.”

“You just what? Planted the parsnip? Fed the kitty? Swallowed his sword? Took a trip to pound town? Did the no-pants dance?”

He’s enjoying this. And he’s doing this on my behalf. That fact does funny things to my insides. There’s got to be something wrong with me.

“You’re a habit I don’t mind forming.”

“Interested is far too tame a word to describe how I feel about you. Obsessed, bewitched. Those come closer.”