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“This family was more fun when we had fewer medical degrees,” Gallowglass said darkly. “I remember the good old days, when we sewed ourselves up if we were wounded in battle and didn’t give a tinker’s dam about our iron levels and vitamin D.”
“We all have our roles in this family. Baldwin will bully us. Marcus will look after the brotherhood. Matthew will look after you, and you will look after my grandchildren. As for me, I find that I am invigorated at the prospect of being held for ransom once more.” My mother-in-law’s feral smile made me believe her.
“I see you’ve met Matthew and Fernando,” Sarah said. “I have.” Vivian looked the two of them over. “Goddess preserve us from handsome vampires.”
“I’ve known that the darkness was in you since I found you in the Bodleian, hiding from the other witches on Mabon.” My breath caught. His eyes held mine. “I felt its allure, and the darkness in me responded to it. Should I loathe myself, then?”
“You’re a hard woman to find, Mistress Roydon.”
Too late, he remembered that Jack’s memories held tales best left untold. Too late, he caught the scent of honeysuckle and summer storms. Too late, he saw Diana release Corra.
“You’re a hard woman to find, but you’re an even harder one to forget.”
“Granddad always did have an unholy ability to give us jobs we could neither refuse nor perform without losing some piece of our souls.”
“A great witch lived here once, you see. Legend says she’ll return one day, to remind us of all we once were and could be again. We haven’t forgotten her and trust that she will not forget us.”
“If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves.”
“To every question I have ever had, or ever will have, you are the answer.”
I watched in silence as the parts of Matthew I knew and loved—the poet and the scientist, the warrior and the spy, the Renaissance prince and the father—fell away until only the darkest, most forbidding part of him remained. He was only the assassin now. But he was still the man I loved.
“Hearts cannot be broken, Diana. And only love makes us truly immortal.
