Lady of Starfire (Lady of Darkness, #5)

by Melissa K. Roehrich

It was perfect when, instead of hearing the Sorceress in his head as he drifted off to sleep, he heard Cassius’s words. What’s best for me is you. And he believed them.

“I chose you, Raz. Please. Just shift. I can do the rest. Please.”

I hate that I love that you have ruined me.

You’ll find me? Among the stars?

Always, my love.

“People eat on this table,” she argued. “Perfect. I’ve been starving for weeks,”

They called their mates mai dragocen. My most treasured. It was a sacred term to them, only used between mates.”

“You may not have Courts to rule. You may not have any magic. You might not be a queen to anyone else, but you are still my queen, Talwyn Semiria.”

“I am yours, and you are mine. I choose you, above all others. Always.”

But not Fae soldiers. Avonleyan ones. That was a dark queen moving among ashes with arrows of deathstone flying from her bow three at a time. That was a mythical king, long thought dead, atop a horse as dark as the coming night. That was an Ash Rider moving faster than the smoke he commanded. Those were dragons flying up and out of the main gates. One of shadows and one of flames. A king and queen atop them. Scarlett was finally here. And she had brought an army.

Let’s set the world on fire, Princess.

“Do you not want to join me in excessive violence?” A wicked grin of his own appeared. “Always, mai dragocen.”

“We are not fucking on Sorin’s throne.” “But it’s yours,” he countered. “Gods, what is your obsession with—” Her eyes flew wide. “A throne is not godsdamn treasure, Raz.” “One could argue a throne is very valuable,”

Im dead i love them fuck on the throne eliza please

she is mine to defend. Mine to consume. Mine to avenge. And you touched what is mine.”

You took and tortured and broke what is mine, and I am going to burn away every part of you that touched her.”

“I want every second the Fates will give us.

Loyalty earned is far more valuable than loyalty demanded.

“I’ll meet you on a battlefield beyond the Veil, Az.”

as she clung to him, she remembered how to dream.

if I could have, I would have come for you. I would have tempted Fate and let the world fall to ruin.

“You break, and we clean it up together,

Nuri met her gaze, there were tears glimmering there. Scarlett gave her a wicked smile.

“What shall we burn first, Sister?”

“We burn i...

“Know that I thought I knew what love was, but I was wrong. I did not know what love was until I found it with you. You are my light, Tava.”

“I don’t understand anything that is happening right now,”

Real

“We are exactly as you trained us to be.”

“Ruthless,”

Death Incarnate purred, her dagger coming dow...

“Vindic...

Death’s Shadow crooned, a scimitar slicing deeply ...

“A we...

Death’s Maiden said, summoning starfire to her palm and bring...

The name of her final assignment as Death’s Maiden.

they left the Wraiths of Death to die with the one who had created them.

you, Talwyn Semiria, will have all my love.”

If I have learned anything over the last year, it is that to love is to sacrifice.”

“Alaric forced us together, but we have always chosen to be sisters,” Nuri said, looking between her and Juliette. “That will remain across the stars.”

“Now we live, Sorin. We live, and we make sure the stars never go out.”