One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns, #2)

by Kendare Blake

‘This is how it will be,’ Billy says, his voice low. ‘I will taste for you, and I will smile. I will appease my father.’ He feeds her another bite of sweet apples. ‘And I will be back with my Arsinoe before she can even miss me.’

‘Do not be ridiculous, boy. You cannot kill what is already dead.’

‘Mirabella remembers everything. If she were here, the sentimental goof would be hugging that chair.’

Natalia is the last to be seated, and she does so with grace, though everyone in this room she would gleefully throw out a window.