Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

by Veronica Roth

In that moment, with our fingers laced together and his calm voice in my ear, I would have done whatever he suggested.

Just out of sight, Akos reached for me, pulling me against him. He pressed me to his chest in something like an embrace, and said something to me in the language of my enemies. “It’s over,” he said, in whispered Thuvhesit. “It’s over now.”