The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
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Read between May 18 - May 25, 2023
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On a nearby couch are Locke and two beautiful faeries—a boy and a girl—one with ram’s horns, the other with long ears that come to tufted points, like those of an owl.
Janet
The cheating...bi king tho
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“For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.” I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?” He grins up at me. “They missed.”
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I don’t know how to say that to her without sounding as though I am insulting him, however.
Janet
Damn she called him ugly in multiple ways
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“Surely it’s not the High King himself you were gazing at.”
Janet
Oop not her catching her
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casting Locke in the role of the protagonist and herself as the romantic interest who disappears when she’s not on the page.
Janet
Like how she is in this book??
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“Go,” he says to them when he sees me at the threshold.
Janet
Slay but why he got other bitches in the first place
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A very familiar ring. My ring.
Janet
Not him stealing her ring
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I still feel the warm pressure of his fingers against my skin. Something is really wrong with me, to want what I hate, to want someone who despises me, even if he wants me, too. My only comfort is that he doesn’t know what I feel.
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“I have too often been troubled by dreams of Jude,” he says,
Janet
He being fr tho
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“Then I guess I don’t know my daughter very well. Because the Jude I knew would cut out that boy’s heart for what he did to you tonight.”
Janet
Lowkey true..
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“Give me an order again,” I say, “and I will show you true shame. Locke’s games will be as nothing to what I make you do.”
Janet
TELL HIS ASS
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That’s Cardan’s mother.”
Janet
Mommy issues
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“Leave,” Cardan tells Locke. “I didn’t summon her here for your pleasure.”
Janet
You tell him
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“He likes you this way, I think,” Cardan says. “Flush-cheeked and furious.”
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He knows. I know he knows.
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“That you hate me,” he says, his voice hoarse. “Tell me that you hate me.”
Janet
BITCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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“I want to tell you so many lies,” he says.
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his tail curling against his leg then twisting to coil against mine,
Janet
NOT THE TAILLL
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I like him better than I’ve ever liked anyone and that of all the things he’s ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.
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“You’ve manipulated the High King of Faerie into obeying you, but you can’t find a way to manipulate one jerk into keeping our sister happy?”
Janet
She got you there
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I hate seeing him with Nicasia. I hate the thought of his touching her. I hate that this is my plan, that I have no one to be angry with but myself.
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He leans against the doorjamb. “Nicasia gave up her secrets. All it took was some kindness and a few kisses.”
Janet
I would have been jealous
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look him in the face and lie. “Yes.”
Janet
Why
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Beside her, Locke is smiling his fox smile, and when he walks, he has a slight limp.
Janet
Hellllll nahhhhh
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“Now kiss me as though I were Cardan.”
Janet
Absolutely Not old man
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bare-breasted cat girls.
Janet
What the fuck
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That makes him give a soft laugh. He reaches out and touches my hair, traces the hollow of my cheekbone. “I could have told my brother that,” he says, with a softness in his voice I am utterly unprepared for.
Janet
Bruuhhh hes soooo inlove