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

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

“And if you keep looking at her like that, I’ll cut your eyes from their sockets and feed them to Setti.” My eyes went wide.

“She’s actually right,” Ector chimed in. “Ector.” Saion turned. “Can you shut the—?”

“But I’m only flesh and blood, and you are…” “What am I?” “You are flesh and fire.”

“You do realize I now need to tear my guards’ eyes out?” “Why?” “Because they too have glimpsed your unmentionables.” “Worth it,” someone called out. Nyktos growled, and I felt the rumble of warning all along my rear and back, where I…I felt the hard length of him.

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

“All you’ve proven is what I’ve told you before. That one decent and kind bone I have in me belongs to you.”

“Your freckles are like a constellation.”

“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.”