More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Light will bloom from sky and soil, Skin tarnished by the brand of death …
Liquid warms my lips, and I jerk back, but carnal instinct has my tongue darting out ... The taste of her blood is a bolt to my brain. My heart. My fucking soul.
Turning my back on a smooth rock is always a challenge. Nine times out of ten, they end up stashed in my bag, carted up my tower, and assaulted with a paintbrush.
Felt
A few years ago, I painted that door black, then spent nine months embellishing it with a littering of luminous stars that perfectly depict the night sky. There’s even a moon half steeped in shadow. Something I can look at when the clouds are dense and angry.
It shouldn’t give me so much satisfaction, watching myself bleed like this. But it does. Because this blood, this little act of self-harm, it’s not for me. It’s for him. Rhordyn.
oH?
Why does he need it? What does he use it for? Does he like this ... thing between us? Because I do.
Oh shes delulu
I still choke on my heart when Rhordyn emerges from the grand castle doors, stalking in long, determined strides across the field toward the forest that fringes the estate. He never looks up. Never seeks me out.
Its giving "im so obsessed with him but he avoids me like the plague"
For the first time in months, I’m sleeping sober.
Damn girl its bleak
“Well, I was going to read you a bedtime story, but some of this content makes me wildly uncomfortable.” “It’s romance. Of course it grates you the wrong way.”
“If I had to choose what to do with my last breath, I’d spend it kissing you until I slipped away ...” He scoffs, flipping another page. “Hate to break it to you, but no man talks like that.” “He talks to her like that.” I snatch the book, close the damn thing, and stuff it under my pillow. “She’s the exception because she’s his mate.”
you tell him
I won’t dare risk tarnishing the friendship I have with Kai simply to satisfy Rhordyn’s dominant dispositions. Kai’s the only thing I have that’s truly my own.
His eyes narrow and his long, silver tail slithers beneath the surface as he slides forward.
KAI IS A MERMAN OMFG
He clears his throat and I glance up, getting caught in the glaze of his eyes. My rambling thoughts stutter to a stop. He’s never looked at me with such reverence before ...
Omg
Being an Ocean Drake, he can’t fight the urge to bank his treasures at his earliest convenience, even if it means momentarily breaking away from such riveting company.
Omfg i love him
“They’re sea whisperers. If you speak into the hollow, the ocean will carry the message. So if you ever need me ...”
I love him goodbye
Kai tips forward and sweeps his tongue down my raw wound in a warm, wet caress.
A ha ha
glance up and see the way he’s looking at me—brow creased while he smacks his tongue against the top of his mouth. “What?” He shakes his head, swallowing. “You taste weird.”
Weird because shes DIFFERENT?
“No, Kai ... no. No! Don’t you dare, you big, slippery hellion—” His arm sweeps out, and he whips me against his cold, wet chest, then dunks us both into the brisk sea.
I wont even be mad if this is friends to lovers becausei love him so much
He’s chillingly beautiful, otherworldly in stature. Just the sight of him has a crippling effect on my ability to function properly, and I hate it. I hate it so damn much.
“Orlaith.” His voice is a velvet purr that blows up my heart rate.
Not the velvet purr
“Live, Orlaith. All I’m asking is that you live.” “I am living,” is my lackluster answer,
Interesting
Though it felt heavy back then, this stone taught me to walk with a stronger stance. To keep my head up and move.
Rhordyn cuts me off. “Orlaith told you exactly what she wants, and you blatantly ignored her request. Unless you want to find yourself out of a job and lose your residence within this castle, I suggest you fix the pattern. Now.”
OH OKAY GO OFF
Part of me wants to be closer, the rest of me knows I need to stay the hell away—that Rhordyn’s an ocean that would plunge into my lungs and drown me if I fell into him.
Rhordyn wants to punish me? Well. Two can play that game.
my skin still feels too tight. Always.
What does this mean
The reason I love this spring so much—the reason I bathe here rather than relying on the convenience of the tub in my tower—is because sometimes ... Sometimes the water smells like him.
It’s a waiting stillness. I skirt around the edges of a turquoise iceberg so big it’s hard to see where it starts. Where it ends. Bodies are trapped within, locked in a catatonic eternity—creatures who did not get the chance to decompose before the ice caught them.
This is so eerie
along with the bones of creatures she decided to spit out closer to the surface after she’d finished gnawing on them.
Who is SHE
A chill slithers down my spine, stilling the swish of my tail and the blood in my veins, blasting apart my impulse. ‘She’s watching.’
Im legit scared
“Oh, precious,” he says, surveying down, then back up the lines of my body still pinned to the wall by his phantom touch. “You don’t even know the meaning of the word.”
Oh shit
I hate you. Oh, precious. You don’t even know the meaning of the word. Better her hate than those heated looks she’s been blindsiding me with recently.
“Two visits in one week? Treasure, you flatter me.”
He calls her trEASURE
“Mount Ether. Home of the prophet Maars. Frightful creature, but he transcribes the future through riddles he carves into stone,”
“Correct,” he says, leaning closer, his briny scent washing over me. It’s a smell like no other, as though the entire ocean has been boiled down into a thick, perfumed syrup. He’s the sea incarnate. Rich and wholesome and— My best friend.
He turns me to face him with a grip on my chin, and I note a gleam in his ocean eyes that wasn’t there before. “Correct,” he purrs. “Clever girl.”
Fold
“Kavth. God of Death,” Kai rumbles. “He can take on the many forms of the dead, and he made the Irilak with a piece of his shadow.”
It’s a common misconception that Ocean Drakes are tidal—easy to sway. Not mine.
"MINE"
I grab his face, pull him close, and plant a kiss on his wet, salty cheek, making his eyes glaze the way they do when I’m offering him an apple or something coveted.
A bud of anger sparks inside me, and rather than tamp the erratic flame, I want to blow on it. To cradle and grow it until he and I are nothing but piles of ash. Let the wind sweep us up and tangle us together. Let our demise finally put some reason to this endless fucking riddle.
Something inside me rears up, wild and ugly, urging me to stalk around this hedge, grip Zali by her strawberry hair, and tear out her jugular with my teeth.
Damn girl
In the stories I’ve read, a male only offers a female the other half of his cupla if she’s his mate. His true love. His destined.
“Mates, Orlaith, are a fairy tale. A tragedy painted with the pretty face of a happily ever after, but at its core, it’s still a fucking tragedy. If you believe everything you read, you’ll be disappointed when you finally step into the real world.”
Heard
“Greedy girl,” he whispers, voice akin to the wind shaking my window panes in the dead of night. “You want them all to yourself?”
SIR:??
“Consider this your religious lesson for the day. Believe me when I tell you, any Gods worth worshiping would take more pride in their position, and they certainly wouldn’t leave it to someone else to clean up their mess.”
Interesting
“Because you’re going into heat.”
WHAT IS GOING ON I DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS THE VIBE
“I’ll be in my room. Alone,” Rhordyn grates out, and I slide my gaze back to him, weighing the value of his words. “With the door locked,” he swiftly tacks on.
Oh my god
But I just can’t help it. I’m so sensitive—untouched need pulsing with its own carnal heartbeat, something that seems directly connected to the torrid roots digging low in my belly. Demanding.
This is so full on im shook
I didn’t ask for this, I don’t want this, and I hate what it’s doing to me. How it’s tied me into an animalistic knot, reprogrammed my mind into thinking there’s only one thing I need to survive: hot, feral sex. Deep sex. Crippling sex that digs up into me and wets my insides. This heat can go to hell.
Mhm
A vicious howl rips through the forest, gouging the air.
OMEGAVERSE WHO
