A Light in the Flame (Flesh and Fire, #2)

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

“You are the heir to the lands and seas, skies and realms. A Queen instead of a King. You are the Primal of Life,”

Nyktos was bowing to me.

AS HE SHOULD

“What he means to say is that such a thing, a Primal of both Life and Death, is not meant to exist,” Nyktos said. “It would be unthinkable for the embers of both to thrive in one being. But if they could?” He gave a short laugh with a raise of his dark brows. “The kind of power they’d wield? It would be truly absolute. They could unravel realms in the same breath they created new ones.”

poppy girl oouuuu

“Maia,” he said, speaking of the Primal of Love, Beauty, and Fertility. “I had her remove my kardia.”

your what?!

“It’s the piece of the soul—the spark—that all living creatures are born and die with. It allows them to love another not of their blood irrevocably, selflessly.”

Nyktos gripped the fallen by the head and ripped him in two. Straight down the middle. With his bare hands.

I wish i could add a picture of my face here cause 🫠😏

“Because you just tore apart a god with your hands, and I found that…kind of hot.”

Kind of? Im salivating

I slammed my hands into his shoulders as that energy, that pure Primal essence erupted from my palms and flowed into— Nyktos.

Oh hell, girl

“Take your pants off, Sera.”

Hehehehe

“Heartmates usually only occur between two people whose unions are linked to some great purpose.”

“Daddy Nyktos is not happy,” Ector murmured.

PLEASE hahahaha

“Kolis is aware that you’ve taken a Consort.” A muscle flexed in his jaw. “And His Majesty has decided to deny your right to a coronation.”

Well fuhk

“Sera.” I thought I heard Nyktos whisper my name as I began to doze off. “You were never a ghost to me.”

Stop 🥹

“Thirty-six,” he murmured, trailing his fingers along my jawline. His thumb coasted over my bottom lip. “Still thirty-six freckles.”

“Why did you visit my lake if you had this?” Nyktos was quiet for so long that I looked at him. He was still staring at the pool. “Because it was your lake.”

Im in love with him

“Not everyone can always be okay,” he said quietly. “And if you happen to find that you’re not, you can talk to me. We’ll make sure you’re okay. Agreed?”

I am also in love with him

The Primal of Rites and Prosperity was in Nyktos’s lap. Touching him. Riding him. Feeding from his throat.

What the fucking fuck

“Why were you with her?” The glow dimmed in his eyes. “Because I was.”

I am gritting my teeth im so fucking mad lmao

“He’s summoned us.”

so pissed at nyktos I forgot that was a thing. shit shit shit

Nyktos jerked his hand free, and he was…he was holding a fleshy, reddish-blue lump in his palm. Dyses looked down at his chest, his mouth gaping. “You will bow before her.” Nyktos’s fingers closed over the heart, destroying it in a burst of silvery eather.

what. a. MAN. standing ovulation or whatever

But I will have you prove yourself to me.”

nope. nope. nope

What was in the essence surrounding the false King, what was inside him, caused the embers in my chest to hum violently—caused the crack inside me that had opened the night in the Dying Woods to widen.

fffffffucckkkk

His stolen power. It was mine. His pain. It would be mine. Vengeance. Retribution. Blood. Mine. All of it would be mine.

YOURE STRESSING ME OUT

“Thad,” he repeated sleepily. “My name is Thad.”

😭😭

Heart strangely calm, I turned to the doors and came face-to-face with Veses.

please kill her

Closing the distance between us, I stretched up and plunged the dagger deep into her eye, straight through it and into her brain.

OH MY GOD HAHAHA I just screamed

It was Bele.

fuck her up Bele

He was Ash, and I… I was in love with him.

😭🥹

“Rise for the One who is born of Blood and Ash, the Light and the Fire, and the Brightest Moon,”

“Where is this diamond now?” His dark eyes glimmered. “Kolis has it,”

sonofabitch

“He must feed until the last drop of blood is taken. Until there is nothing but the embers left. Then, they will transfer to him. He will Ascend. But you…” He sighed. “You will not survive. You will die.”

I knew you were gonna say some bullshit

“I never wanted to love. Not until you, liessa.”

Sobbing

Callum.

SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. RIGHT. NOW

And the great powers will stumble and fall, some all at once, and they will fall through the fires into a void of nothing. Those left standing will tremble as they kneel, will weaken as they become small, as they become forgotten. For finally, the Primal rises, the giver of blood and the bringer of bone, the Primal of Blood and Ash.’”

Poppy!!!!!

A silver beast. Bathed in the brightest moonlight. Ash.

oh my god