The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King (Crowns of Nyaxia, #2)

by Carissa Broadbent

The king knew, in this moment, that his greatest love would also be his ruination, and that both would come in the unlikely form of a young human woman.

Maybe the king always knew that his greatest love would be his ruination. Maybe he knew it the moment he met her. He’d know it the second time he died, too.

He dies AGAIN? OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

My husband smiled at me, lowering his raised fist, which had indeed been ready to knock one more fucking time. “There she is.”

But I felt anything but powerful when I was forced to recognize that Raihn—the man who had lied to me, imprisoned me, overthrown my kingdom, and murdered my father—genuinely cared for me.

The first time in weeks I’d seen something that looked like fight in her eyes. Goddess, I could’ve fucking wept for it. There she is, I thought.

“Did you really think I wouldn’t smell you, princess?”

Hes pmo so bad

I love you. I’m sorry.

I- i cant help it- YPU WERE THE BEST BUT YOU WERE THE WORST AS SICK AS IT SOUNDS I LOVED YOU FIRST

It was all her. Deadly and stunning. Even her hatred was fucking beautiful.

“At last,” she crooned, shifting aside so that her child servants could hoist a naked woman onto the table.

Omygod

“Your cousin,” he said, between his teeth, “is a fucked up piece of work.”

I agree

“But the Mother was with me that night. The Mother chose me to live.” Goddess. I asked, “How old were you?” “Five summers, perhaps.”

Oh my god

“Do you remember,” he whispered, “that time you threw me out of the window?” My brow furrowed. “Wh⁠—” He gave me a firm, forceful push, and then I was falling.

Her face the night of the Kejari. Her face on our wedding day. Her face when she’d sobbed at the top of that tower in Lahor. Her face just now, on the verge of tears. I had fucked up.

Ya think

I rubbed my dry tongue against the roof of my mouth. Suddenly, the taste of cold, foamy, absolutely fucking terrible beer sounded… strangely appealing.

Raihn’s

I love you and i agree with everything your saying but how can oraya just be expected to love you again YOU KILLED HER DAD BRO

“My king, I apologize. I—I apologize. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.” Raihn ducked his head, wincing, as if he could make the boy unsee what he had recognized. But it was too late. And just like that, the room turned.

Oh cra

He sat up slowly, the movement making his knee slide forward. I could have stepped away, but I didn’t. Instead I settled onto it, pulling myself partially onto his lap—the pressure of his leg, and the roughness of his clothing and mine, sending a little spark of pleasure up my spine.

ENemies to lovers to enemies to lover i give up

“The dress is an act of war. But you’ve always looked fucking fantastic in blood.”

“I’d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it.”

I started to follow him, but Cairis swooped in. He, unsurprisingly, looked irritated. “Excuse me, Highness. I need to speak with you.”

Cairis drugged him hes the spy

“Cairis,” Raihn rasped. “It was Cairis. The traitor. Can you fucking believe that?”

Kne it

The kingdom is already drenched in oil. He is more than willing to provide a match.

“You have nothing but me,” I said. “And yet, you’d let me go?” “I have nothing but you,” he murmured. “So I am letting you go.”

“Let me make you the queen that you are. Let me guard your body, your soul, your heart. Let me spend the rest of my fucking pathetic life at your mercy. If I need to die, then let me do it by your hand. Please.”

“Why are you here?” I asked. “Why aren’t you in the dungeons?” A beat of silence. “Let’s just go,” she said, going to the door, her back to me. “You said we don’t have time.” I paused. There was a note to her voice that seemed… odd.

suspicious girly

But just because one tells themselves something, understand, that does not make it true.

“I love you,” he said, in a single, urgent breath. “I just—I need you to know that. I love you, Oraya.”

You don’t have to look so scared, princess, I tried to tell her. But when I attempted to straighten, I only fell to my knees. And everything was dark.

Hes not dead surely

He was alive. But I knew that wouldn’t last. I’d spent so much of my life sensing death looming over me. I knew what it felt like when it was near.

And not a single part of me doubted it as I whispered into his kiss, “I feel it, too.” THE END

Uh did oraya ever say i love you to raihn like ive been waiting for it i thought it could be the last line but ig not...