A Vow So Bold and Deadly (Cursebreakers, #3)

by Brigid Kemmerer

“Scary Grey,” I whisper, and my voice breaks. Proving worthy of his nickname, he wastes no time on emotion. He drops to a knee beside me and draws a dagger. I suck in a breath and grab Jake’s arm. Grey’s eyes meet mine, and those haven’t changed. He’s coolly intent, focused. “Do you no longer trust me?” Maybe I shouldn’t. We’re on opposite sides of a war. But I stare back at him, and even through the fever and the exhaustion, I think of everything we endured together, from the moments when he first kidnapped me till the time he offered Lilith his sword on outstretched hands in a bid to save my life. I remember when he fell through the door of my apartment, broken and bleeding, desperate for my help. I remember the passion in his voice when he stood in the shadowed hallway, when he was the Commander of Rhen’s Royal Guard, and I’d first agreed to be the Princess of Disi. When Grey challenged my trust. When he made me understand what I’d agreed to. My duty is to bleed so he does not, Grey said then. And now my duty is to bleed so you do not. Now I’m the one bleeding, and he’s waiting with a dagger in his hand. I swallow. “I trust you.”

this. :')