The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk (Crowns of Nyaxia #4)

by Carissa Broadbent

This is the tale of how a fallen one ascends.

“Then we will take whatever parts of you are useful and discard the rest.”

That's a great way to get a frightened kid to follow you...

I died alone, listening to the screams of the love of my life.

Fuck. Why do Inalready wanna cry??

“Then who?”

BABE. Literally there is one other option here....

Going on a mission to save the world with my friend’s dead father was not at all what I expected to be doing in death.

Tbh i was pretty sure Daddy Vamp was dunzo so this wasn't on my bingo card either babe

ASAR

Daddy

“The stars have already forgotten your whore, fallen one.”

You'll pay for that

“that creatures as powerful as you are so stupid.”

Daddy do you have a death wish??

Half a taunt. But half a genuine plea: Send me to the underworld. Send me home. Send me to her.

Daddyyyyyyyyyyy

It could be her. A sliver of a chance. A sliver of a sliver of a chance.

Ughhhhhhhh he's so cute

ASAR

TRIPLE DADDY??? oh we are in luck today

“Fate and luck are twin sides to the same coin.”

“and not a single one where you say no.”

WELL OF COURSE NOT. He's a good daddy

“Goddess help me understand why anyone would go through such lengths of breaking divine laws just to be subjected to this for the rest of their goddess-damned lives.”

That's kinda rude. But i lol'd anyway

“If I feel the moment that Rishan trash murdered me in front of—my kingdom?”

dude that's your son in law so you may wanna get over that little monster you're brewing bud.

Vincent watched the Sentinel fall, long blond hair whipping out behind him.

He's not blonde.... Is he?

Atroxus, my god, my husband, the being I had once trusted more than anything on this plane or the next, had sent me to my death.

Yeah but you killed him, so death did you part right?

But all I saw was that blade.

We love when Daddy gets tunnel vision

And it was the last thing I saw when I plunged into darkness.

They plunge into darkness a lot

“I cannot see everything, but what I do see already looks . . . ​suboptimal.”

He's soooo fucking helpful.

“Stop thinking like an acolyte and start thinking like a vampire.”

How could the House of Shadow end up with two simultaneous Heirs?

Blargh. This is why he shouldn't have lied to her.

All but Septimus,

Why do i get the feeling his story is gonna be the next one?

“Get your hands off my wife.”

YOUR WHAT NOW?!

You know what my priority is. You know it because you just used it against me.”

Herrrrrrrrrr fuck he's such a good Daddy

“Because I already see that every time I close my eyes, and often when they’re open. Every time I sleep. Every time I dream.

I see you, and—”

“And Shiket’s sword piercing your heart, and the moment of your death...

“I can smell your arousal from here,”

Can he actually or is he just teasing her??

She was wearing something silky and black that didn’t exactly look like clothing.

But you like??

Mische quickly sprawled out on the bed like some kind of amorphous slime fungus,

WHY on earth would you call her a slime fungus?!

He did not like joking about my death touch. He did not like joking about my death at all.

Because all he sees when he closes his eyes is you dying :'(

I have never been afraid to bear the mantle of the villain.”

He's definitely our Bloodborn daddy and he's gonna be a good one too

everyone is the hero of their own tale.”

Did you really think that we wouldn’t come for you?”

Shit he's such a good friend

I swung back around, sword bared,

When did he get a sword?? Did I miss that??

My first thought was that the Bloodborn had turned on the House of Shadow.

No dude it's gotta be your bestie

A Sentinel.

Oh damn... Then where tf is Raihn? He wouldn't have left there's no fucking way

I think that might be the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me.

I can't believe he hasn't told her he loves her... He's referred to her as the love of his life but not said it to her.

Try not to be too put off by his appearance.

Omg is it what's his face????

I will love you anyway.”

Is that the first time he's told her he loved her??

The last time I’d fed from his throat, he’d been inside me, the two of us writhing through our hungers together.

And how are we gonna figure out how to make that happen again huh??

Srana dropped me and snapped upright with a symphony of ticks and chimes.

She remindsme ofsomething but i can't quite place it

TICKtick TICKtick TICKtick, as gears and gears and gears built beneath her, raising her up.

Oooooooo i know what it is! Dr. STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS! With all his arms in the mirror dimension

I had seconds to decide, and when I arrived at our only answer, I knew she would hate me for it.

The House of Night....

Burn scars peeked out from beneath my sleeve.

Your scars are back??? Did he legit bring you back???

“I would do it a thousand times over. A thousand times, if it means that I get to hear you berate me for it here rather than imagine those words over your corpse. You are the sacrifice I will not make, Mische. You. Don’t ask me to apologize for that.”

“The apartment did not reek of sex,”

That's all you remember??

We hadn’t, though she did seem oddly familiar.

Because she's Turned and came close to death beforehand??

I drew my blade across my palm, opening a line of shimmering black-red.

Always the fucking palm. Idiots.