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And so he remembered. He remembered her.
Reminds me of SJM’s style, please don’t be common in the book
She’d called him Armiger; not Lord or Lady, but a neutral title he felt was more in keeping with who he was. She hadn’t mocked him like so many others had. The bar for empathy was on the ground as far as the nobility was concerned, but when you were used to eating dirt, being thrown a bone felt like kindness.
Like most of the damned, she was beautiful.
This is raw. 10 points
Cool weapon name
So when she came after him again, he’d steeled his resolve, asked her quietly for forgiveness, and struck from below, altering the angle of his slash to catch her unaware.
He kept Breaker nice and sharp. As far as beheadings went, it was a clean one.
“Send me to heaven, Armiger.”
Time had softened the subsequent trysts, even made them pleasurable. But always, he remembered her ceiling.
“Fucking arse,” Remy encouraged her. “Swag-bellied cockchafer!”
He wanted to say it was a reflex. That this was the only way he’d ever interacted with a woman, and that he didn’t know any better.
Their encounters always left him feeling both cheapened and exhilarated, the small bouts of self-revulsion warring with that part of him that felt good at being needed.
Poignant and heartbreaking
The unearthly light that had bathed Xiaodan streaked out in all directions around her, and for a moment the fog around them seemed to dissolve from the force of that brightness alone. It was as if the sun, rarely seen in Aluria, had taken up lodging inside of her and was unleashing six months’ worth of daylight all at once to make up for its previous absence.
Is the lack of sun/daylight somehow connected to Xiaodan’s power?
In that moment, she was stunning.
“I brought out the sun, Armiger.” Xiaodan sighed against him.
I knew it
“They call her the Sunbringer.
very apt i’m sure
She wore a long dressing gown—one right out of his wardrobe, a luxurious red silk from Situ that he’d splurged for on a whim. It exposed a lot of her neck and legs and looked fetchingly good on her.
“Because I killed him myself,” she said with a slightly vicious air, “and I tend to be rather thorough about these things.”
He’d wasted years trying to garner the respect that no one had ever planned on giving him.
that feeling really sucks
Her smile throughout her unnecessary destruction of kingdom property remained as sweet as honey. It was both frightening and oddly seductive.
Remy could not explain the sudden rush of envy that ran through him.
I can. you wanna be the meat to their sandwich
They were both stunning.
“No number of autopsies will undo what had already been done to her,” Malekh said coldly.
“I have a few skills that not even the best of your Reapers possess, sir.”
period, talk to shit Xioadan
And the way Harveston seemed to single him out had made Remy take it all quite personally. “Fuck,” he said again, just because.
aw, Remy :(
allow, of course, meaning that I have commanded you to do so and you will obey.
Xiaodan’s reply was much more acidic in tone this time, but Queen Ophelia only laughed, looking oddly pleased with herself.
hahaaaa so obvious
That didn’t matter to the public. The truth rarely did.
very real and applicable for the world off the page. rip media literacy
In a city ruled by gold and genteel decadence, most of the citizens were ripe for guilt.
“I thought you didn’t want me along,” Remy muttered. “I never said that I didn’t want you.”
“I’ll go where you both go,” he found himself saying, feeling strangely at peace with the words.
Rather flattered to see them imitating the best.”
It wasn’t fair for them both to be this attractive, he thought sourly; one was his ideal woman if she wasn’t spoken for, the other a Lightdamned shitpouch even if he was the best-looking man Remy had ever seen.
Maybe if you questioned your brother instead of making excuses constantly for his behavior, you’d know more.”
spicyyyyy, tread carefully Remy-boo
I shall send word of any new developments. For an additional price, of course.”
period, get yo money sis
“I have heard of domestic arrangements in Aluria where men would beat their wives and the rest simply look away. Are you telling me, then, that one such example of poor behavior by humans is enough to denounce the rest for the same thing? There is more to vampires than just the feed.”
What other crimes do you intend to lay at my door that I have not dwelt upon myself at every moment of my existence?”
“When you’ve got poor health and other limitations, you learn to turn anything you can get your hands on into a weapon.
“Well, congratu-bloody-fucking-lations to you, but I didn’t!
He stopped abruptly, aware of both vampires now watching him: Xiaodan with a soft smile on her face, and Malekh bereft of any expression at all.
“How many of those needles do you still have secreted up your arse?”
“They call my clan ‘the Court of Wanderers, the Restless Court’—an insult,” Malekh added, not sounding offended at all.
All those centuries as his sword, and I left his court for nothing but a conscience grown years too late.
You chafe at being called weak, but that simply does not matter to me. We intend to protect you. Whatever your hatred of me, I will not see you harmed.”
“Ask me a different question.”
well that’s rather unfair and hypocritical
Neither had undressed, but it didn’t matter. He watched the way their bodies curved hungrily toward each other; sensual, intimate.
The beautiful girl in Malekh’s arms trembled, her lips leaving his neck briefly. “Yes,” she groaned, eager and filled with need. “Yes. I want him, too.”
She thought you might join us. She is feeling your rejection most keenly.”
