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But she did run.
Lol idk why I thought that was funny she said sum 🧎🏽♀️🧍🏽♀️🏃🏽♀️
“With a tuft on the end! It coils up under his clothes and unfurls like a whip.”
Ew
Maybe Taryn isn’t the only one who has decided to fall in love.
Lets go lesbians
Madoc wouldn’t be upset with Vivi about.
ALLY!
“Am I beautiful like you are?” I ask Nicasia, genuinely curious. “No,” she says,
Thats so embarrassing
With a gentle tug, he pulls me closer. His arm is around me. He leans in for a kiss and my thoughts slide away.
Lowkey i would've
I do not understand why he likes me, but it is exciting to be liked.
“This is not how I meant to begin. I meant to give you wine and fruit and cheese. I meant to tell you how your hair is as beautiful as curling woodsmoke, your eyes the exact color of walnuts. I thought I could compose an ode about it, but I am not very good at odes.”
He gives me an evaluating, conspiratorial look. “Then let’s keep doing it.”
His eyes are barely open, but I can see the shine of them, wet as tar. He watches me as the girl kisses his mouth, watches me as she slides her hand beneath the hem of his silly, ruffly shirt.
“Time to change partners,” a voice says, and I look to see that it’s the worst person possible: Cardan. “Oh,” he says to Locke. “Did I steal your line?”
His hand slides lower on my hip. I narrow my eyes at him. “You really hate me, don’t you?” he asks, his smile growing.
I say, thinking of the page with my name scratched on it. Thinking of the way he looked at me when he was drunk in the hedge maze. The way he’s looking at me now.
Taryn leans in and tucks a stray bit of hair behind Locke’s ear.
Bitchhhh
It is no easy thing to be the lover of the High King. It is to always be a pawn. Taniot goes to her death with grace. She is still.
Damn, men aint shit
“It is too late,” she says, and brings the knife to her own throat, pressing the point just below her ear.
Damn she hates him that much...
“You look…” he says, and then trails off, blinking a few times, not seeming able to finish. I am guessing the hair thing worked better than he had expected.
Cardan is swilling down more wine, his gaze burning into me.
As for what he wants to keep from the revel, it could be anything.
You??
Finally. Finally, I’ve made him flinch.
Vivi goes still, watching my face. “Jude—” she says. Her voice is mostly breath.
No
“You know he’s not keen on arranging a marriage in the middle of all this turmoil.”
Nooooio
Time to change partners. Oh, did I steal your line?
Noooo hes so funny for that tho
“So he proposed to you,” I say. “While the royal family got butchered. That’s so romantic.”
GET HERRR
“I’m out of practice,” she says. “I’m not.”
DRAG HER
“I’m the mirror you don’t want to look at.”
She kinda chewed
When I allow myself to truly think on it, I cannot fault Locke for choosing her. I am violent. I’ve been poisoning myself for weeks. I am a killer and a liar and a spy. I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me.
Felt. Champagne problems
“But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.”
You do you girl lol
“You should ask Jude where Prince Cardan is,” she says, narrow-eyed. “The last time I saw him, he was dancing with her.”
I hate her
“I found a piece of paper with my name on it,” I say. “Over and over, just my name.” He flinches a little but doesn’t say anything.
Nor do I know what fault in me made her choose him.
“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.”
Slayyyyyyyy
I lean toward him, close enough for a kiss. His eyes widen. The look in his face is some commingling of panic and desire. It is a heady feeling, having power over someone. Over Cardan, who I never thought had any feelings at all.
“You really do want me,” I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. “And you hate it.” I change the angle of the knife, turning it so it’s against his neck. He doesn’t look nearly as alarmed by that as I might expect.
Not nearly as alarmed as when I bring my...
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Bitcchhhhh
I fix him with a look. “I can be charming. I charmed you, didn’t I?” He rolls his eyes. “Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.”
reaching out a finger to trace the shape of my ear. The curve, I realize. I shudder, eyes closing against the hot spike of shame. He keeps talking, but he seems to realize what he’s been doing and snatches his hand away. Now we’re both ashamed.
“Stay away from me tonight. For your own sake.” It stings a little, that he has that kindness in him. I don’t want to see it.
She wishes that was her
She has Locke, but I am here with a prince.
Slay, she won
“Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.”
“Jude,” Locke says, touching my arm, startling me. His fox eyes crinkle in amusement. “I admit, I am a little jealous to see Cardan parading you around on his arm.”
Boy if you don’t….
“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks,
He has a way with words
Taryn picks up the crown. “Give it to Vivi,”
If this bitch…
still believing we’re on the same side.
Are you not?
I think of Cardan and how he will hate me.
Why
“For the next full minute, I command you not to move,” I whisper back. Cardan goes utterly still.
Damnnn
Cardan looks at me with helpless rage.
Hurt my boy’s feelings
The Liar.
Of Nicasia giving Cardan a lingering kiss on his royal cheek.
I would have felt salty
