Rise of a Queen (Kingdom Duet, #2)
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Aurora Harper sold her soul to the devil. It goes without saying that she’ll never be able to escape me.
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Soon enough, I’ll make all her nightmares vanish, even if it’s the last thing I do.
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Aurora is mine, and I’ll bring chaos to the world to protect what’s fucking mine.
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“Is there anyone you consider a human instead of something you buy?” I don’t know why I asked the question when my main focus should be to get him the hell out of here. “You.”
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“Don’t cry again.” His voice is hard yet tender at the same time. “Those eyes aren’t made for tears.”
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He hesitates. It’s the first time I’ve witnessed Aiden hesitating. “Jonathan never looked at her the way he looks at you.”
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If you leave again, I won’t only chase you to Leeds or Oxford. I’ll flip the world upside down to find you.”
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“What if I disappear?” “Then I’ll burn the world that forced you to disappear and resurrect you from its ashes.”
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One moment is too long sometimes. But other times, one moment is all it takes for a change to take place.
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If he’s a hurricane, I’m the wind that gets off on the damage he causes.
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“Your smile, like everything else about you, is mine and mine alone. I don’t share.”
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I’ll bring the world to its knees in front of you. All you have to do is ask.”
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“Because the world needs to bend the knee for my queen.” My queen.
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Jonathan might be feared by the world, but as I stare into his sombre eyes, I find safety, belonging — feelings I never thought I would find again.
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“I’m not protecting you because you’re a woman. I’m protecting you because you’re my woman.”
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But how the fuck can I let go of the piece of myself I finally found?
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Being with Jonathan is like free-falling without a landing. It’s finding oneself after years of being lost. It’s peace after a war.
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He called me his queen once, but what he doesn’t know is that there’s no king to my kingdom but him.
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“In case you haven’t figured out the answer, listen carefully, Aurora,” he whispers in dark words against my mouth. “I will not let you go.”
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I don’t only love you, I’m obsessed with everything about you, and I’ll spend the rest of my life proving how much your presence means to me.”