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August 31 - September 5, 2025
Even if Rhys, at the end … even if he hadn’t been exactly an enemy.
Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.
“I don’t have the sentries to spare to escort you.”
I wasn’t Tamlin’s mate, as far as I knew. There was no mating bond between us—yet.
“We all heard your neck break. But you got to come back. And I doubt that he will ever forget that sound, either. And he will do everything in his power to protect you from that danger again, even if it means keeping secrets, even if it means sticking to rules you don’t like. In this, he will not bend. So don’t ask him to—not yet.”
word. No—no. But I didn’t have to say it. Thunder cracked behind me, as if two boulders had been hurled against each other.
I shouldn’t have been surprised. Not when Rhysand liked to make a spectacle of everything. And found pissing off Tamlin to be an art form.
Rhysand, High Lord of the Night Court, now stood beside me, darkness leaking from him like ink in water.
back, some climbing over seats to get away. Rhys looked me over slowly, and clicked his tongue at my silk gloves. Whatever had been building beneath my skin went still and cold.
Rhys released my elbow only to slip a hand around my waist, pressing me into his side as he whispered in my ear, “Hold on.”
“You look exactly like the doe-eyed damsel he and that simpering priestess want you to be.”
Rhys gave me a knowing smile. “Does Tamlin? Does he ever ask you why you hurl your guts up every night, or why you can’t go into certain rooms or see certain colors?”
“Get the hell out of my head.”
Rhys whirled, a hand rising to the back of his head, his eyes wide. I already had the other shoe in my hand.
Rhys’s lip pulled back from his teeth. “I dare you.”
“Feyre,” Rhys said smoothly, “meet my cousin, Morrigan. Mor, meet the lovely, charming, and open-minded Feyre.”
Rhys snorted. “Try to read it, Feyre.”
“Delicious,” he purred.
It’s true, isn’t it? I jolted back, my chair groaning. “Stop that!”
The fashion of the Night Court suits you.
You should be afraid. You should be afraid of this, and you should be thanking the gods-damned Cauldron that in the past three months, no one with my sorts of gifts has run into you. Now shove me out.
“I’m not your enemy, Feyre.”
“I heard what you said.” Prick. Prick, prick, prick. “Then get to work.” Rhys uncoiled to his feet. “And at least have the decency to only call me a prick when your shields are back up.”
“Prick I might be, but look at you. Maybe we’ll get to have some fun with our lessons after all.”
“Will it happen?” Rhysand didn’t break my stare. “Maybe.” “Why?” “Because war is coming, Feyre.”