Between Two Kings (Split or Swallow, #2)

by Lindsay Straube

“Be still.” She would be anything for him. “Say it. Say you want my cock.” She would say anything for him. “You were made for me.” Nothing could be more true.

A life in the castle with Leo would have been a life without Caspen. A life without the addictive rush of danger and lust that only a basilisk could provide.

IM ALREADY TIRED OF CASPENS BITCH ASS

“You did your best with the circumstances you were given.” He clasped his warm hands over hers. “That’s all anyone can hope to do.”

“I’ve been in all sorts of positions, Tem. And I especially enjoyed the dangerous ones.”

“Tem,” he said. “My brother. Apollo.”

FINALLY MEETING THE LEGEND

“It is not such a bad thing, Temperance,” she murmured. “To have two men fall at your feet.”

“Men are curious creatures, Temperance. They are petty, and they are stupid.”

So true

Caspen’s eyes narrowed. The room seemed to grow colder as he said, “You love me.”

Can he die

You are the only queen I answer to.

But she was frozen in place, entranced by Apollo’s intoxicating words. He was not unlike Leo in that way. Both were talented with their mouths.

oop

To sin is to live, Temperance. I know you want me. So taste me.

“If you say one more word, I’m going to slap you.” Apollo’s eyes flared. He leaned in, his breath against her blushing cheeks as he whispered, “Please do.”

i’m already in love with apollo oh my goodness gracious

“Do not come to me for comfort, Temperance. Come to me when you want me to fuck you the way my brother will not.”

BITCHHHH

“I can’t just talk to you. Talking is the last fucking thing I want to do with you, Tem.”

Leo turned from her, staring into the fire. “Fine,” he said eventually, his voice tight. “I’ll write to you.”

THE INFAMOUS LETTERS ARE FROM LEO???? oh im about to get fed so well im so ready

“It would be an honor to die by your hand, Temperance.”

Do not tempt me, Tem. I will rip that dress off right now and fuck you in front of them.

“Peace is not gained through bloodshed.”

“You could’ve told me you were drinking from a cum fountain, Tem.”

This book is insane LMAO

“I can’t stop thinking about you, Tem.” The words were rushed, his entire body was tilted in her direction. “You’re on my mind every moment of the day. I want you all the fucking time. How can that be? How can you take up so much space in my mind?”

“Tell me, Tem. Why is my brother’s cum in your pussy?”

What a sentence

“I am thinking that I have never met someone so incapable of following instructions as you.”

i fucking hate caspen and his lies. i hate him. he’s so fucking stupid. if tem chooses caspen i’m blocking lindsay straube on everything i can

“Stop smelling my sweat, Apollo.”

Im so serious, you could take any quote from this book and show it to someone out of context and they would question your sanity.

First my brother, then my father. Should I be offended you draw the line at fucking me?

“You may belong to my brother, but I will protect you as if you are mine.”

“No matter what your heart decides, know that you are worth fighting for.”

Pretty girl. Beautiful, beautiful girl. You are wasted on my brother. I cannot believe he gets to wake up next to you and sink his cock into you whenever he wants. He should fuck you every minute of every day. If you were mine, I would never stop fucking you. I would worship your cunt until the day I died.

It is not enough to fuck you just this once, Temperance. I want you as many times as I can have you. I will do anything you want. Anything. Just let me fuck you again. I want to fuck you in my bed. I want to bend you over and fuck you in the banquet hall for everyone to see. I want to lick your cunt. I need to taste you, Temperance. I need to come inside you. I need to come on your back and on your tits and in your mouth and on your hands. I cannot live without those hands, Temperance. I need them on me. I need them on my cock. You have no idea what it is like to look at you and not be able to touch you. Every day I want you and every day I cannot have you. It is agony. You parade around with your perfect cunt and your perfect tits and you do not let me fuck you and I cannot take it anymore, Temperance.

Im obsessed with apollo

I cannot look at you without growing hard. It was agony to watch my brother fuck you in front of me. I wanted to rip you away from him—I wanted to put you on my own cock instead. You do not understand what it is like to be around you and unable to fuck you. It is all I think about. It is all I need. I think about you every time I am with another woman. None of them satisfy me the way you do. I have lived hundreds of years, and your cunt is the best I have ever touched. I want to run my tongue over it. I want to taste you, Temperance. I want to spit in your mouth. I want to see you take my cock from behind. I want to watch it stretch you until you are begging for more. I want those pretty lips on mine. I want to bite them until they bleed. Are you going to let me do that, Temperance? Are you going to let me fuck you again? Just this once is not enough for me. I need you again and again and again. I need you every fucking day and night. I need you. I need you. I need you.

“It will force you to be truthful,” Adelaide said quietly. “So make sure you are ready.”

Im so fucking scared

“Pain. Not love, Temperance. But pain. You are hurting yourself by loving them both. You must choose.”

Guys im so scared

Caspen turned to her. “It is a shame you do not love my brother, Tem,” he said coldly. “You two are perfect for each other.” He delivered his last two words as he looked straight in her eyes. “Both liars.”

He needs to look in a mirror cuz all he does is lie to tem. I've never hated an MMC more

“I am saying that your little human prince is fragile. And I am tempted to break him.”

I need caspen dead

The only thing Tem needed was a lobotomy.

Girl same

“You should leave,” Leo whispered to Evelyn. “It’s what you do best.”

clock it

He looked straight into Tem’s eyes as he delivered his final line. “Somehow I always find my way back to you.”

“Watch what you fucking say about my wife.”

“I think about you all the time, Tem. I can’t fucking stop. Nothing distracts me—nothing draws my focus. You’re always there, in the back of my mind, watching me.”

“I don’t need an apology.” “Then what do you need?” She shouldn’t have asked. Because she already knew the answer. “You.”

“Tell me not to marry her.”

“You sent me away, Tem. Bring me back now. Bring me back to you.”

She wanted to shake him—to scream at him. They were never going to get anything resolved if he chose to act this way. But Caspen had clearly made his choice.

Hes such a fucking asshat.

“Your infatuation with the human prince has gone on far too long. You should have learned your place long ago. It is right here, by my side. If you do not understand that by now, I doubt you ever will.”

I hate caspen so bad

Caspen was always keeping secrets from her. Always. It had, despite the supposed honesty of the basilisks, become a core tenet of their relationship.

This is literally insane

They had shared so many kisses before, but this one was different. This one felt like coming home.

Team leo forever

She wanted to consume him, to rip him apart and crawl inside his ribs until they were not two bodies but one. No amount of him would ever be sufficient; nothing would ever be enough.

“I want you for the rest of my life, Tem. I don’t care what it takes. I want you and I need you and I love you and you’re mine.”

He was her anchor. Her beacon. Her home.

“I was your first love, Tem,” Caspen whispered. “He will be your last.”

thank the fucking heavens.

And thus began their life together.