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My virginity was a popular topic in Granby,
Ew
“You’re a Nightmare. Your kind has been feared for so long, you’ve been hunted nearly to extinction.
A faint sense this wasn’t right. Whether it was the place or the person, I didn’t know.
holding out for mate?
“Marry me,” he said.
Hell yea forced marriage trope
I know exactly what you are... and I think it’s magnificent. Your enemies are my enemies. My power is your power. If nothing else, let that be the reason.”
He cant lie
pieced together that he was speaking Enochian—the language of angels.
Collith could see my real face.
“Heavenly fire,” I breathed.
Angel
“Welcome to the Court of Shadows, my lady,”
“The blue bloods.” “Didn’t expect the fae to use such human phrases,”
“You are a queen, Fortuna Sworn,” Laurie murmured.
literal?
“Haven’t you heard?” Jassin leaned close. He smelled like everything tempting and addictive. Like chocolate. Like sex. “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”
what a line
“They will write songs about you, Fortuna Sworn. Oh, how they’ll laugh and sing. You’ll be a legend. The female who married the King of the Unseelie Court and didn’t even know it.”
“I’m a virgin. Fresh and ripe for the picking. Take me in Damon’s place.”
Ew
“The children call him druindar northana. Roughly translated to Death Bringer, in your crude tongue.”
like a reaper?
Of course we can. We lie about everything. That rumor was established millennia ago. Some clever faerie thought it would be advantageous if the rest of the world thought we could be trusted.”
figures
“Just remember one thing, okay? You’re Fortuna Sworn, baby.”
hype man
the scars. There were two of them, and they traveled from his shoulder blades to his waist. Exactly where his wings should have been.
Fallen angel
“No. I was born in this world. Second generation. But we still form with wings; they fall off within a few years. God’s reminder to us, I suppose, of what we lost in the uprising.”
“For the old ones, they’re a painful reminder,” he answered. He didn’t put down the mirror. “They were once beings of light. To look into a glass and see what they’ve become… it’s unbearable.”
He would also lead in my stead, if something were to prevent me from doing so. Come.”
Ominous
“Sure you do,” he said. “But you must’ve done something very, very good in a past life.”
Literal?
“She made it so the glass showed you whoever you loved most.”
How he found her? Reincarnted mate?
Once again, Collith didn’t grace Laurie with a single glance or word of acknowledgment. Did he think the silver-haired faerie was beneath him? Was that how he treated all his subjects?
Invisible?
How had they come to know each other? Was there some kind of dynamic at play that I was completely missing?
On this night, she shall undergo the first trial.
Trials feel very acotar
“Most of us are nephilim,”
Laurie stood behind me.
Looks guilty
Who the hell was he? Because I was starting to think the browbeaten slave had all been an act.
Yea he sus
began running the sponge over my skin.
Yum bathing trope
Too often, though, someone with a cause lost sight of themselves. The lines between right and wrong blurred. Passion became fanaticism.
Quietly, so no one would hear, I pressed my face against my hands and wept.
And were back
Did he make trips to Barnes and Noble? It was an odd mental image, this beautiful faerie browsing the mystery section. More than once, I almost gave in to the urge to ask.
“His name is Laurelis.” My instincts stirred. “Laurelis…”
Of course
