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These days, she would have auctioned off the Milky Way to make his intentions a little less honorable.
His voice fell, as if he were no longer certain those cameras didn’t come with audio. “Tell her they’re coming for her.” Winter stared. “Coming for … coming here?” He nodded, a subtle dip of his head. “And I think they might actually have a chance.”
“Hello, friend.” Winter knelt in front of Scarlet’s cage. “Hello, crazy,” said Scarlet. It sounded like an endearment. “How are the castle walls today?” Winter hummed thoughtfully. She’d been so distracted she’d hardly been paying attention to the walls. “Not as bloody as usual,” she determined.
“Jacin,” she said, with a shaky smile. “You must know. I cannot remember a time when I didn’t love you. I don’t think such a time ever existed.” His eyes filled with a thousand emotions. But before he could say whatever he would say, before he could kill her, Winter grabbed the front of his shirt with both hands and kissed him.
She was right. They were filthy. They were bloody. Winter was a well-loved princess who was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken.
Snarling, Levana shoved away the tray of appetizers and stood, knocking the servant onto his side. He scrambled away. “Stop manipulating my husband.” Cinder laughed, her gaze slipping back to the queen. “Don’t be a hypocrite. You manipulate him all the time.” “He is mine. My husband. My king.”
Iko settled a hand on Cinder’s shoulder. “Yeah, but broken isn’t the same as unfixable.”
“With all due respect, Your Majesty, how can I be sure she isn’t manipulating you into siding with her?” “With all due respect,” said Kai, sounding exhausted, “if she wanted to manipulate someone, why wouldn’t she have manipulated you into leaving her alone?”
She was trapped. Thorne was captured. But they had been heroic.
“When she catches you,” the guard snarled, “my queen will eat your heart with salt and pepper.” “Well,” said Cinder, unconcerned, “my heart is half synthetic, so it’ll probably give her indigestion.”
