Feathers So Vicious (Court of Ravens, #1)

by Liv Zander

his gaze slipped to the gemstone resting against my thudding sternum. “Looks like I found you.”

“Life marks us all in one way or another.” Sebian dunked the cloth into the water. “The only scars truly ugly are usually the ones on the inside, anyway.”

“No matter how much you want to hate me, it’ll never measure up to the loathing my father clearly harbors for me. You think you rendered me worthless? Don’t flatter yourself, Malyr. I was born worthless.”

“Why watch me?” “Presume it is something as simple as the fact that you are beautiful,” he said. “Except when you fight me… then you are stunning.”

“And if you run from it this time? Little dove, there will only be one set of arms left to run into. Mine.”

“A Raven king’s mate could be the daughter of his bannerman or the whore working the streets in the shadow of his castle. How could he ever find her if he never crossed her path?”

His lips placed kisses into the unmarred areas of the skull and wings. I hate that I hurt you. Until he set his teeth to it. I love hurting you.

“Put those ribbons back in this instance!” “No! I hate it pinned back and want it open! Look, Risa! Up there!” She pointed at a bird soaring in the sky above her, its flight seeming to mirror the girl’s dance. “You see how fast that white seagull is?” My ears pricked at something in the tone of her voice, and I looked up and over at the sky that hung over the bay. Not a seagull… a white dove. Like her.