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“Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”
I hate how beautiful he is, how lethal his abilities make him as he strides toward me, shadows curling around his footsteps.
“I’m happy to step in.” That voice. That tone. That prickle of ice along my scalp… Oh no. Hell no. No. No. No. “You sure?” Professor Emetterio asks, glancing over his shoulder. “Absolutely.” My stomach hits the floor. And Xaden walks onto the mat.
“Taking out your enemy before the battle is really smart; I’ll give that to you,” he whispers, his warm breath brushing the shell of my ear. Oh gods. He knows what I’ve been doing.
You are not attracted to toxic men, I remind myself, and yet, here I am, getting all attracted.
“Now get in the seat and actually hold on this time, or no one is going to believe that I’ve actually chosen you,” he growls. “I still can’t believe you’ve chosen me!”
Her eyes fly wide. “Both dragons?” she squawks. I nod. And all hell breaks loose.
My mouth opens, then shuts like a fish out of water as I search for any reply that isn’t fuck off.
My heart hits the ground. I’ve always known deep down that Dain valued rule and order more than relationships, more than me, but to have it so cruelly displayed cuts deeper than Tynan’s sword.
What a little bitch
“I’m freakishly flexible. It’s part of the whole bones-snapping, joints-tearing thing,”
Not that we’re a couple. Not that I wouldn’t climb the man like a tree if presented with the right set of circumstances.
“I call you to answer for your crime against Cadet Sorrengail.” Xaden’s focus shifts to the center of the formation. “Wingleader Amber Mavis.”
She got what she deserved
“Fuck it.”
Jack falls down the mountainside in an avalanche of rock that I know he can’t survive.
“Come on,” he whispers. “Show me what you’ve got.” I surge up on my toes and kiss him.
“Because I only want you, Xaden.” The words breach something within him, and he gives. Finally.
“Stop being so fucking honorable and fuck me, Xaden.”
“Shut up and fuck me, Riorson.”
“So the next time I see you, I’ll just act as cool as you are right now and pretend that I’m not remembering what it feels like to have you sliding inside me.”
Because if there’s one thing I know for certain, it’s that I’m going to fall for this man—if I haven’t already—and he’s halfway there, too, whether he realizes it or not.
“I’m just…his.” For the first time since last year, I step up onto the parapet.
I’m in love with Xaden.
We’re going for five,
“I wonder what your king would be willing to pay in order to get back the daughter of his most illustrious general. I’m willing to bet your ransom would be worth enough weaponry to defend all of Draithus for a decade.”
“We’ve been sent here to die.”
I think I might die today.
“Melgren can’t see the outcome when more than three of you are together. That’s why you’re not allowed to assemble.”
