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August 10 - August 24, 2025
It wasn’t like I’d made this choice. It wasn’t like I deserved the blame for the pain they were feeling, or even like I was responsible for it really. And I was hurting too. I hated being away from them and their refusal to even speak to me about it just cut me deeper.
TRULY, if i was gabriel id tell her to eat shit. The other two shared her once before, but i feel gabriel has far more reason to want to distance himself. And shes very inconsiderate of them all wanting distance, why would they care about your feelings when they feel used
Pain brimmed in my chest, but it was more than that too. I was angry. How dare he just freeze me out without so much as a word? Who did he think he was to just cut me off like nothing we’d ever shared had meant anything to him?
I had my own Vampire to save. And I couldn't risk anything that might mean Ella ended up stuck here. She needed me if she was ever going to make it out of this city which meant I wasn't going to be anybody's hero but hers.
100% Elise is gonna get stuck down there as the Vampire the card master needs for whatever the fuck he’s doing. I’m pretty sure they killed this vampire stuck down there anyway.
I looked at it with my heart pounding. That was what he used to cast that spell. Without it, he wouldn't be able to steal anyone else's power. He wouldn't be able to make me bring anyone else to their death.
Evidently that’s not true since the book was hidden in the bricks above the Sparkling Uranus and Elise watched King steal magic from that one boy in the first book.
I needed to make the final payment on our mom's debt to Old Sal to free Elise and then gather up more money as well as whatever documents we would need to start over as new people, plus figure out where the fuck we were going to go.
He only had one fucking payment left but Sal still feels entitled to Elise and was literally gonna sell her is fucking disgusting.
"Wait," I said as he pushed the cake towards me and an insane thought occurred to me. "You didn't...I mean, this isn't...it’s not like you were...you know…with the cake...right?" "Would you prefer cake that he hadn't had his genitals in it?" Junior asked mildly and I yelped as I lurched out of my seat to get away from that cum cake.
"Good. So the price of their freedom is this: I want the gold you stole from me returned. I want you to swear into the Dragon Guild and attend social events at my request. I want regular donations of your storm magic. And I want you to put a baby inside Juniper within the next three months."
Gabriel's hand tightened around my wrist so hard that I cursed as it forced me awake, trying to pull back from his bruising grip, but he wouldn't release me. "Gabriel?" I hissed in the dark, mindful of the other three guys in the room with us as I blinked the last flecks of sleep away from my eyes.