And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

by Kiersten White

Soon he would show them his honor on the end of a sword.

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A dragon burned everything around herself until it was purified in ash.

Her relief was tempered by the knowledge that they would find something else to hurt her with. They always did.

Lada amused herself by lying on her back, throwing a knife straight up to try to snag an apple. Sometimes she did. Sometimes the knife came back down and nearly stabbed her. She was equally entertained by both outcomes.

“There is no such thing as cheating. There is only winning or losing. I won.”

“I have no desire to be a man,” Lada snapped, coming back to herself. “And yet you wear trousers and train with the Janissaries.” “Yes, when otherwise I could be sitting in this room with you, invisible, sewing and growing old. How strange I should choose something else.”

bruh sometimes we want to be strong girls wearing pants. I would never survive in any other time period.

A chill flowed from Lada’s mouth, her cold fury palpable. “You will have to excuse my confusion. Freedom is not something with which I am well acquainted.”

“Lada is no woman.”

Because she would never do it to him, and Radu was not capable of being crueler than she was.