A Duel with the Vampire Lord (Married to Magic #3)

by Elise Kova

The first is that they subsist on human blood for sustenance and for their dark magics.

The final truth is that the vampires share one mind. The beasts that torment us month to month are little more than living golems that heed their lord’s will.

I feel like that isn't true

I might be the forge maiden, but I am no delicate flower. I am as cold as silver. As strong as iron. I will bend for destiny, but not for any man.

Fear marries desperation to breed poor decisions, Mother always says. We must protect the silver, for it is our only defense against the vampires. A defense that grows more finite by the day.

His eyes are sunken against his cheeks. Folds of flesh sag underneath, leathered with an age that must be ancient. A deeply furrowed brow hunches over them, carving wrinkles between. What would be white in a human’s eyes is black for him, making the deep recesses they sit in on his face all the more pronounced. At their center is a gleaming yellow iris, like a wolf’s eyes caught in the lamplight of a dark night.

I find it hard that this is the vampire she is gonna fall in love with

“What am I going to do with you?” “Love me forever?” My mouth moves on its own. “Careful, or I just might.”

But I assure you I have no interest in your body.” His nose scrunches slightly in a sneer of disgust.

No need to be rude

“My power is intoxicating, isn’t it?” he whispers. “Do you want more? Break the curse on my people, dear hunter, and I can keep you drunk on my power until your body can no longer handle me.”

Well that sounds sensual

They seem to think their own thoughts rather than being a hive-like group… But they are monsters,

I bet the succumbed are the hive mind

What would Ruvan want beyond his fae courts, songs, and great plains? Do I care to know? Dangerous. Forbidden. I might.

You want to know

“You’re lucky you taste so good otherwise I’d be far more frustrated with you.”

any object magic can tether onto,” she answers, coughing up dust as she perches at the top of a bookcase. “You’ll know it when you feel it, though. It’ll have that zing of old, powerful magic.”

I wonder if its her.

Stay in line and do everything you’re told. Never think about anything else because if you do you might realize just how suffocating all the demands and expectations are.

Sounds like real life

“How do we free ourselves from this torment?” “I don’t know if I want to be free.” His gaze drops farther, to my neck. “You might be torture and temptation incarnate. But you are strength and power. You are damnation and salvation trapped in curves that should be forbidden.”

I love it. Make me beg for you, Ruvan. My insides have turned molten. Give me power, give me life.

Girl

“It’s the curse. He’s on the edge of becoming Succumbed.”

Not our vampire lord! He hasn't been woo'd properly yet!

“You touch her again and there will be consequences.”

“I need you. I want to push you away. I’ve always been told I cannot allow myself to be touched and yet all I want are your hands on me.” My words become hasty. “I saw you lying, dying, becoming one of those monsters, and all I could think about was saving you. I had to see you—save you—be with you.”

Girl its called love

“And I feel for you.” He pulls me a bit closer, his hands still around mine. “I ache for you. I burn for you. I want you.”

One indented into the V shape that disappears into the front of his trousers, leaving me jealous of some black ink.

:O me too girl

For the vampir gods to see, he lays me on the stone, velvet coat beneath me. He kisses down my neck, slowly, sensually, ripping through my shirt with forceful and controlled movements. Then he—

This is like when we were robbed of the scene of Nesta, Cass and Az

Bloodsworn…wife?

You will pay in blood, like the rest of your forsaken kind. I will have the throne I earned, and my vengeance for Loretta.

Is Loretta the woman in flor's vision?

“If we’ve ‘hardly done anything’ then how have you become my everything?”

Girl he loves you stop denying your own feelings

“Very well, if the lady of the vampir lord commands it.”

:O

“Then she forced me to learn that my prey were not monsters. She was not a monster, but a woman of flesh and blood and heat. A woman who tastes of fire and cinnamon. Whose blood whispers of great purpose.” Ruvan pulls me slightly closer. “A woman whom I grew to know enough that love could take root.”

“Good morning, Loretta.”

She was the kings lover i was right

“Don’t you want Jontun to be wrong?”

Is jontun the raven

Who else would lay the curse but him?

Loretta? To protect her love?