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Maybe I’d wait until the mating bond snapped into place,
Hmm
There was a note in those words that made me pause. A note of what I could have sworn was desperation. Worry.
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had filled my time—given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less … alone.
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“I know. I felt you. Even with your shields up— for once.”
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he gripped my chin. “You know the cost already.”
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His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, “You are my salvation, Feyre.”
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the bastard knew what a treasure you are. That you are worth more than land or gold or jewels. He knew, and wanted to keep you all to himself.”
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“You know, I think it might be very easy to love you, too, Feyre. Easier to be your friend.”
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“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.” He picked up his glass, his gaze so piercing that I wondered why I had bothered blushing at all for Tarquin. Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
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Then I had talons, talons not claws, and I was slicing and punching at the metal— My lungs were on fire.
Changing
His eyes flickered. “Did you get it?” Not at all concerned that we were half-drowned and had very nearly been dead.
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My face burning, cursing him for the vision he’d slipped past my mental shields, I reinforced them as I entered my room. And took a very, very cold bath.
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“Welcome to my home, Feyre Cursebreaker.”
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You are good, Rhys. You are kind. This mask does not scare me. I see you beneath it.
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“Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they’re going so much that it’s worth it. Maybe they’ll keep coming back, until there’s only one star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday—if it keeps coming back often enough—another star will find it again.”
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“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
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“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
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“Rabbit stew, if the cook’s to be believed.”
First kill
“I’m thinking,” he said, following the flick of my tongue over my bottom lip, “that I look at you and feel like I’m dying. Like I can’t breathe. I’m thinking that I want you so badly I can’t concentrate half the time I’m around you, and this room is too small for me to properly bed you. Especially with the wings.”
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There you are. I’ve been looking for you. His first words to me—not a lie at all,
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then I learned your name. Hearing you say it … it was like an answer to a question I’d been asking for five hundred years.
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wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.
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am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you. And I am honored—honored to be your mate.”
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We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.
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“You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I thought that from the first moment I saw you on Calanmai.”
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The music had been lovely—strange, but lovely, written at a time, Cassian had told me, when humans had not even walked the earth. He found the music puzzling, off-kilter, but … I’d been entranced.
Hmm
I slid my dagger in a third time, relishing the splintering of bones and flesh. “This is for me.”
Attor
“Feyre Cursebreaker, the Defender of the Rainbow.”
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I hissed at Tamlin, “If you bring me from here, if you take me from my mate, I will destroy you. I will destroy your court, and everything you hold dear.”
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A crack sounded in my ears. And the world cleaved in two as the bond snapped.
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“Not consort, not wife. Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court.” My equal in every way; she would wear my crown, sit on a throne beside mine. Never sidelined, never designated to breeding and parties and child-rearing. My queen.
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And so Tamlin unwittingly led the High Lady of the Night Court into the heart of his territory.
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