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But, regardless,” I called in a clear voice. “I am no child. My name is Saeris Fane, and I am your queen.”
PERIODDDDDD
I waited for Kingfisher to say something, but no response came. Glancing over to where he stood on my right, I found that he was yawning.
LMAOOOOOOOOO
Oh? So you’ve been imagining this, then, have you, Little Osha? My blood lit on fire in my veins. The suggestive tone in his voice in my head would have made even the girls who worked at Kala’s blush. No. It was too late, though. My cheeks were glowing, and Fisher was chuckling under his breath, rolling back his sleeve. You can own your fantasies with me, Little Osha. There is nothing in this realm or the next that I won’t give to you if you desire it. All you ever need do is ask.
THE MAN YOU ARE FISHERRRR
“Fuck, Saeris.” Breathless. Mindless. Desperate. Fisher’s voice was thick with his own desire. His next words went against everything my body was screaming for. “Stop, Osha. Enough.”
OH MY FUCKKK
All subjects of the Blood Court of Sanasroth are forbidden from harming, hindering, or killing me, my mate, or any of my friends. Additionally, from this moment onward, no feeder enthralled to a high blood of this court may be used for the purposes of war, malice, or mayhem. I have spoken. It is done!”
PERIOD SAERIS
But the rest of me was relieved that my friends still had laughter in their souls. They had suffered, too. Their losses also piled high. They’d had to watch our people being brutalized, eaten, and turned every day. And if my friends could still find it in themselves to laugh, then I was glad of it. That meant that maybe there was hope for me, too.
I love them all
“Are you two even list—urgh! They’re not even listening.”
LMAOOOOOOOOOO
“All right, then. I take it that means that I should not attempt to touch your girlfriend?” “Oh, sinners,” Lorreth muttered under his breath. “She isn’t my girlfriend. She’s my mate,” Fisher said quite amicably. “And if any part of your body, literally any part of it, comes into contact with hers, then I will remove it.” Carrion thought about this. “What about if she’s hanging off a cliff by one hand and can’t hold on much longer? Can I touch her then?” “Where am I in this unlikely scenario?” “Probably dead.” Fisher just gave him a tight smile. “If I’m dead, then—”
LMAOOOOOOOO
Oh, I’m listening to him. He lowered his eyes to his feet. A weightlessness pulled at my stomach when he looked back up at me from under ink-black lashes. It’s hard to concentrate on camp logistics when I can smell you across the room, though, Osha.
LORD HAVE MERCYYY
Oh. Archer was standing right in front of me.
LMAOAOAOAOAOA
“Oh. Oh, I don’t think—you don’t need to call me mistress, Archer. I’m not the lady of the house.” “Yes, you are.”
I’m so freaking sat rn
“No other will ever claim this seat.” He said it matter-of-factly, drawing out the chair in question, gesturing for me to sit down. “From now on, you are Lady of Cahlish.”
YES LAWWDDD
I didn’t need rich foods and rare wines. I didn’t want fine dresses and people fussing over me.
Saeris dpmo rn
Carrion laughed off the offer, and his scent hit the back of my nose—not necessarily offensive, but very, very obvious. It was pungent as wine and rich as perfume. I knew the others smelled it, too, from the way they all started politely breathing though their mouths. This is what they’d all been smelling on me whenever Fisher and I were together? Gods alive, that was mortifying.
LMAOOOO IM FUCKING WEAKKK
Strangely enough, she seemed to be the only one who was inhaling deeply through her nose. Gross. She leaned across the table, angling her torso in Carrion’s direction. “From the smell of you, you must be ravenous.”
Crazy work
“You can’t tell me that you don’t want to get married?” “We don’t need a ceremony to join us together, Te Léna.” He laughed, but the sound felt clipped. Off, somehow. “We’re God-Bound. I’d say that trumps getting married, don’t you?”
Nah I need this wedding rn wym
“You forget that I’m a winter creature, Saeris,” Fisher murmured. “I don’t crave the attention of the sun. The snowcapped mountains, the forest, the frozen river… those places are my home. You are home.”
Love him so much wtf
“I’ve killed more people than I can count. I lost the parts of myself that knew how to feel anything other than pain and sorrow centuries ago. But for better or worse, you have brought me back to life.”
My God I love this man so much
“Three nights. That’s how long I’ve paced this room, fantasizing about fucking you raw, Saeris Fane.”
IM FERAL RN NO ONE TALK TO ME OMGGG
“Careful, Osha,” he said roughly, kissing along my jawline. He stopped when he reached my ear, tugging on my earlobe with his teeth. “You might just get what you wish for.”
MY GODDD
He hovered there, his heat making my head swim, the smell of him wreaking havoc on my insides, the shape of the sinful smile at his mouth brushing teasingly against me.
SWEET JESUSSS
“Come now, Osha. Where else would an acolyte kneel to worship but at the altar of his god?”
Iktr
I barely heard Fisher’s satisfied drawl over the explosions going off in my head. “Thaaat’s it. Good girl. Ride it out.”
I’m so fucking sat rn
“I told you once that I was disappointed by how breakable humans were. Remember?” Oh, I remembered. “You’re not human anymore, Saeris. Think you can keep up with me now?”
I hurled one of his boots across the room;
NOT THE CHANCLAAAA SAERIS LMAOAOAO
“How the fuck do you know my name?” “You must g-g-go.” “Yeah, no shit.”
lol
“You haven’t sealed them?” she gasped. “Sealed them? What does that mean? I don’t understand.”
WTF YOU MEAN SEAL EDINA
“Never mind that. Look, people are too scared to act against you while Fisher’s around. They’ll be willing to try their luck if they think you’re weak or unprotected. We need to post extra guards at your rooms.”
The man that he is
“Saeris. I’m going to let you off because you’re new to all of this, but a vampire can’t lie to its maker. A blue aura comes off you when you try. The stronger the aura, the bigger the lie, and right now, you’re lighting up my office like a torch.
lol
Good. I hope he keeps it up all fucking day, I thought. Algat huffed. “Well, aren’t you the rudest thing?” Fuck. She’d heard me? How the hell had she heard me?
lol
“You might as well stop,” I grumbled, getting to my feet. “You could cut your hands off and you’d still be fucked.
lol
“That’s right. I know,” he said. “You killed him, didn’t you.” An accusation, not a question.
Who tf are you
“Hello, Foley. It’s been too long. I can’t tell you how good it is to see you, brother.”
OMG FOLEYYY YESS
Her words flowed over me and fell away, having no effect. My mother knew I wasn’t weak. She’d made sure of that herself.
That’s right
But I wasn’t about to let that happen. I didn’t love this realm, but it had produced someone I loved with a fierceness that took my breath away, and I was not going to leave this place worse off than when I had found it. For Saeris’s sake, I would protect it.
I love him so much
Her hands had touched it. Her hands had made it. That made me feel… Fuck, I just ached for her. I wanted her here, next to me. I wanted to hold her; the fact that she wasn’t in my arms right now felt like the greatest injustice that had ever been inflicted upon me. There was no breathing my way past it.
The way he still yearns for her even after they got together>>>
Thank the gods, I chanted in my head. Thank the fucking gods. Don’t thank them, came Fisher’s low, resonant reply. Thank me. I’m the one who’s about to make you scream.
I-
“I had no idea what you would mean to me. I had no idea what I would do to keep you safe. When I close my eyes, you are all I fucking see, Saeris Fane. I could be dead in the ground five thousand years and the frosts could have taken my bones, and still no other male will ever have loved another female the way that I love you.” My heart tripped in my chest. Hearing him speak this way? To me? Having him love me like this? It healed me.
My hearttt it’s healing me what the helll
I want to stand behind you and watch you on your hands and knees. I wanna see your slickness running down the inside of your thighs, your pretty pink little pussy on show for me, aching for my cock.
IM CONVULSINGGGG
“Sweet fucking mercy,” he panted. “Kill me. Sit on my face and ride my tongue until I fucking die. I can’t take it anymore.”
LORD HAVE MERCYYY
“I won’t drink. I just… I want you to feel…” “I’m feeling everything I need to right now.” A teasing smile took over his features as he rocked his hips forward, letting me know that he was right there, the head of his cock right at my entrance. “Believe me. This is perfect.”
in love with someone else. He did it for Zovena.”
Foley’s jaw snapped closed.
Clock that tea
“Wait. So your queen, the same queen who’s been depriving you of water and starving you and murdering the people of your ward for generations, draws some pictures and tells you your sister’s dead, and you believed her?
Clock it
“Gracia,” he said softly. “Gracia is dead.”
He looked exhausted. Ready to give up. He nodded, breathing deep, indicating that he could stand on his own, but rather than letting him go, I pulled him into a hug. Saeris wasn’t here. But if she was, this is what she would have done for him. Carrion immediately tried to pull away, but I hugged him tighter—too tight, maybe—refusing to let him go. He sagged, burying a single, choked cry into my chest, and that was all I heard out of him.
My beautiful boys
“It stinks down here,” he mumbled. I bit my tongue. “I can barely see.” I stared ahead, jaw clenched. “There are rats down here.”
LMAOOOOO
My mate. They’d hurt her. They’d taken something sacred from her here, in this awful place. Not her right to have children. But her right to make such an important decision for herself. I made them pay, and I did not stop. Not when the new guardians who arrived turned and tried to flee. Not when they scrambled on their hands and knees and begged for mercy. The men of this ward treated their women like chattel. Like possessions, without minds, dreams, or hopes of their own. They used them for sex, or else violated their bodies and stole their rights. They had murdered Saeris’s mother. They
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Ugh, hes so powerful and devoted
I wanted to kill the bastards for what they’d done to my mate. For what they’d done to her mother. For what they were still doing to this ward. My vengeance was incomplete. A heavy debt was still owed by the men who carried out Madra’s orders. It wouldn’t be settled until the streets of this city were piled high with their corpses and a mountain of golden armor blotted out the suns. But vengeance was going to have to wait.
“She was old.” He said this with no emotion at all. As if he’d said this to himself a million times over the past few hours, and the words were the only things holding him together. “I just wish I’d been here to say goodbye. She was… the last of her line. There won’t be any more Swifts.”
My baby
