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there was too much grief and too much pain; she didn’t have room for emotions like fear.
The blood from his wound felt eager to mingle with hers.
Author has a blood kink confirmed
These words did not taste sweet at all. They latched on to her tongue like barbs. Biting and sharp and utterly unholy.
‘Is this transaction too intense for you,’ Jacks panted, ‘or are you actually worried about me?’ ‘Don’t flatter yourself.’
ice. It wasn’t quite a kiss, but it didn’t hurt so much when she brushed her lips against his.
This kiss was urgent and wild and raw and corrupt. Full of all the terrible emotions flowing between them.
He wanted her. She was all he wanted. All he thought about.
Red tracks ran down his cheeks, ghosts of tears he’d cried for her.
She could still taste him on her lips. Tart and bitter and deliciously sweet. Apples and grief and Fated magic.
there was something pleasantly mocking about ‘Your Highness.’
Legend wasn’t crowned yet, but he already moved like an emperor stepping into a throne room.
He might have been a liar and a villain, but he made both things look very good.
‘Let me out of here, you bastard!’ ‘I think I preferred Your Highness.’
She could handle his glares and his barbed remarks, but his tenderness could upend her completely.
Scarlett’s love reminded her that while some things never healed, other things grew stronger.
Earlier, his gaze had been full of stars, but now his eyes were soulless
It was a place for making mistakes and bad deals.
spiky rage of her burning-red anger
her palace had been a thing made of dust and history.
He was tailored suits over inked tattoos, and lies that people wanted to believe.
thin threads of worried silver
Love is poison to us. Love and immortality cannot coexist. If an immortal feels true love for even a minute, they become human for that minute. If the feeling lasts too long, their mortality becomes permanent.
It’s not safe to tempt an immortal to love.
Love and immortality cannot coexist. We only feel obsession, fixation, lust, possession.
Jacks slowly spun around, smiling as if he’d already won more than just the right to slip inside of her dreams.
But it was difficult to be afraid of nightmares when Scarlett’s thoughts were still tangled up in the dream that was Julian.
If Julian had written the words, Scarlett was certain her heart would have raced, or her cheeks would have hurt from the way her smile stretched. She’d have felt something.
gossip rarely contained compliments.
she was less afraid of battling monsters than she was of giving Legend her heart once again.
she’d fallen in love with him, and it had been like drinking magic – indescribable, all-consuming and fantastically addictive.
The world no longer smelled like anticipation. It smelled like him. Like magic and heartbreak.
If she leaned in, he’d kiss her until it consumed her, until she couldn’t breathe without him and she gasped yes to whatever he asked.
‘But I don’t want your immortality, Legend. I want your love.’
I can’t imagine spending an eternity with someone who will never love me.’
Bedlam reigned where hours ago there had been magic and butterflies.
his love for her sister outweighed the promise he’d made to Legend,
This was why Tella had always liked Julian. He never gave up on Scarlett.
The count’s residence looked like the beginning of a fairy tale, before the magic had arrived.
Lovely and wrong.
He said the word ruthless the way someone else might have said the word beautiful.
‘It’s my native tongue, for “daughter”.’
darth vader moment
She already had one murderous, power-hungry father. She didn’t deserve another one.
there was nothing remotely comforting about a man
the Fallen Star was made of magnificent golds.
red liquid the color of broken hearts.
Everything that hurt was everything she cared about
Just because it was a negative emotion didn’t mean it wasn’t a valuable one.
He smelled like dirt and tears and perfection.
She wished there was a way to tether her heart to his, so that even when they were apart they would still be attached.
There were things in this world to be truly afraid of, but loving Julia...
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