Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1)
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She squirmed and frowned, like they didn’t fit.
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al ★彡
WAIT IM CRHING
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It was occurring to her that this whole thing was rather dashing. Will looked just like the sort of handsome young lord’s son she had always imagined asking her to dance at a ball. I always knew I’d meet you, came the thought, out of nowhere. Of course, her aunt wouldn’t approve. This was one of those “unnecessary youthful experiences” her aunt wished her to avoid. One she never thought she’d have. She was conscious of her own pulse.
al ★彡
? Hold up........
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Something about the casual nature of the gesture made her flush.
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“Are you shy? I’ve seen a man before.” She lifted her chin. “I grew up in a family with boys.” She was lying.
al ★彡
BRAHHHHHH
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Tom said, “You’re my sister.”
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Instead, a bitter, transactional silence passed between them. It was the closest they had ever come to understanding each other. Violet ducked her head and hurried out.
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Her final goodbye to Tom had been that ghostly feeling of his fingers in her hair.
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al ★彡
Raising eyebrow suspiciously part 2
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al ★彡
FUUCCCKKKKK
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“Take her,” said Justice.
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“That’s enough.” Justice cut the talk off, stepping forward. “Take them both to the cells.”
al ★彡
justice dont pmo
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“You will follow the Dark,” said Justice. “Unless we prevent it. That’s what Stewards are. We’re the last protectors. Against creatures like you.”
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He was brave; it was infuriating, like his spotless tunic and his perfect posture.
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al ★彡
?&"&:('&:("&?& SIXK TO MY STOMACH HOLD UPPPPP
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Everything faded, this world insignificant; James the only real thing in it. You, you, you. James’s extraordinary beauty pressed in like a knife; it hurt.
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SOOO GEEKED RN AND THEY HAVENT EVEN SPOKEN TO EAVH OTHER YET IJBOLLLLL
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“The boy savior,”
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The collar of his shirt began untying itself, invisible hands pulling it open, exposing his neck, then his collarbone, then baring his chest.
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al ★彡
YALL.
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“Did you get it from your mother?” said James, and the fingers on Will’s neck slid to his chin, tilting it up. They weren’t James’s real fingers. James wasn’t close enough to touch him.
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He kept his eyes on Cyprian, but his awareness of James was a bright and dangerous thing. He knew what James’s power felt like, sliding over his skin. He half imagined he could still feel it, even as James mounted, a dangerous blue-eyed boy sharing Violet’s horse. And from the look that James gave him, eyes glittering over the cloth gag, James knew it too.
al ★彡
whats their problem actually
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“You needed him,” said Violet, her young voice holding steady, “so I got him.”
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MY DIVAAAAA
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He adopted Cyprian and Marcus after his first son died six years ago.
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al ★彡
just started giggling so loud
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No one could look at him and not want to possess him.
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al ★彡
marcus ur cooked brotha omfgg
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Despite these deprivations, James was waiting for him in the kind of indolent pose that was utterly provocative.
al ★彡
WHATS THIS GUYS DEAL
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“I’m not Simon’s lover,” said James. “I didn’t ask.” Will flushed. “And there’s no way to know if you’re telling the truth now anyway.” “You could stick it in again.”
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It was, undoubtedly, a challenge.
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Will couldn’t help touching it, spreading his palm over the place where the stab wound had been only an hour before. The wound had healed—had vanished—it was utterly gone. There was no mark, no scar—James had nothing to show for the violence that had been done to him.
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“How many times,” he heard himself say. “What?” “How many times did he try to brand you?”
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al ★彡
WHAT IS THIS INSANITY
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“Do the Stewards realize you’re clever?” James’s voice was intimate, new, and subtly approving, like he’d learned a secret.
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al ★彡
oh lord theyve brought out the weapon parallels this yaoi is serious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“I think what people were is less important than what they are. And what people are is less important than what they could be.”
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al ★彡
starts Open firing .
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It conjured up the moment when they’d been locked together upstairs, as if violence was a temptation.
al ★彡
IM GEEKED HOLYY SHITTTT
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The provocative words were certainly a ploy. It suited James to keep him here, Will thought. And James was good at holding attention. Was it a natural skill or a learned one? Something from his other life or from this one? James was like the locked door to a world of secrets, unattainable and alluring.
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“He’s coming for all of us.”
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girl.
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“Maybe fighting is knowing there’s darkness in you, and still choosing to do what’s right,”
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“I know someone who can get us inside,” said Will.
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IJBOL THERES NO WAY
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KATHERINE STEPPED OUT into the garden at dusk.
al ★彡
she is such a wildcard charater to me i rlly dont know what her deal is
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Will said, “He killed my mother.”
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She had feelings for an enemy. Self-knowledge made her shiver. Because she knew now that she didn’t want Lord Crenshaw. She wanted this, danger and mystery, and something on the very edge of her understanding—
al ★彡
WHATS THIS LITTLE LOVE TRIANGKE THATS GOING ON HOLD UPPPPP
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For a moment she stared at him, the unusually earnest look in his eyes, coupled with the striking features and strange clothes that gave him an otherworldly look. She felt like she was seeing him for the first time.
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al ★彡
mind u hes met this girl like twice
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Violet frowned. “Matters of the flesh. You wouldn’t understand.” “I know what a kiss is,” said Cyprian, but he’d flushed slightly.
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al ★彡
oh god
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“Because you might be the only Steward left,” said Will, and he saw Cyprian go white.
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Now he knew: Don’t grieve. Move. One foot after another, that’s how you survive.
al ★彡
god theyre so young too im so sad for fhem