Court of Ravens and Ruin (The Shadow Bound Queen, #1)

by Eliza Raine

“To be honest, most small children are smarter than you. The actual shit on my boot might even give you a good challenge.

But my treatment by those around me had made me stronger than the other humans. It had forced me to stand up for myself, to constantly be one step ahead. My hair had become my armor.

“Do you have problems with your hearing, or is it your inferior intellect that requires me to repeat myself so often?”

His jaw tensed. "I don't want you dead. You know I don't want you dead. We have been over this what seems like a hundred times.”

“Good morning,” I said to the owl. “It is not especially. I abhor daylight hours.” He blinked,