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All libraries contained magic. Even libraries that didn’t specialize in such things. Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even.
“Then tell me, Joshin. You filled me with enough venom to take down three horses… but do you scent any fear on me? Do you think I am afraid to face my demons? I’ve faced them before. I know them all by name. I’ve conquered them and bent them to my will more times than the sun has risen over Yvelia in my lifetime. I’ll face your nightmares if I have to, and I will still be the most frightening thing prowling around in the dark.”
“Until you learn how to be gentle, I will not teach you how to be violent.”
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.”
It was safe to love him back because, no matter what, he was never going to let me fall.
“Is that so? Is it as simple as turning a handle and stepping through the door? Or do you kick the door down and fall ass over tit through it as a result?” Slowly but surely, I was beginning to hate this vampire. “I don’t see that it matters how I get the job done, so long as it gets done.”
Girl you are being insufferable
Lorreth gave me an apologetic shrug. “Sorry, Saeris. But he’s right.”
Thank you, Loreth, for having some common sense
Belikon can command us until he’s blue in the face, but he can’t touch us here.
I feel liked thats gonna bite you in the ass later
“Dreams are just vapor and smoke,” I said. “They mean nothing unless you’re willing to live them.
A person cannot be coerced into truly loving another. It would rob them of their free will.
This was how I remembered him: kitted out in fighting leathers, with a sword strapped to his back and his head held high. Gold flashed in his mouth as he came and knelt before the throne, offering a chagrined half smile. In a voice that rang loud and clear across the hall, he said, “My name is Foley Briarstone, and I have come to be of service to my queen.”
I like himmm
Strange, sad eyes, with vertical, slit pupils met mine. “I was reminded recently that I was a wolf,” he said, smiling softly. “And wolves do not cower in dusty libraries, afraid of their own shadows. I swear myself to you, Saeris Fane. I will carry out your bidding so long as there is breath left in me. And when I pass from this place and move on to the next, I will carry your banners there and storm the gates of heaven in your name if you wish it.”
The original Alchemists could never control it. Not even the strongest of them.
Let me guess, she will
