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“I loved your father, but he’s dead,”
Don’t believe it
Are you that eager to bury another child?”
“Stay the hell away from Xaden Riorson.” The air rushes from my lungs. That name… “That Xaden Riorson,” she confirms, fear lacing her gaze. “He’s a third-year, and he will kill you the second he finds out who you are.” “His father was the Great Betrayer. He led the rebellion,” I say quietly. “What is Xaden doing here?” “All the children of the leaders were conscripted as punishment for their parents’ crimes,”
His eyes are the shade of gold-flecked onyx. The contrast is startling, jaw-dropping even—everything about him is. His features are so harsh that they look carved, and yet they’re astonishingly perfect, like an artist worked a lifetime sculpting him, and at least a year of that was spent on his mouth.
“Your father killed my older brother. Seems like we’re even.” “Hardly.”
he’s not talking to me. “Jack Barlowe,”
BOOOOOOOO
Jack either thinks I’m that link or he’s an unstable asshole who just enjoys killing. Probably both. Either way, I need to move faster.
Still hate this man ! No redemption
Even King Tauri’s second son died during his Threshing.
Ridoc,
can’t help but wonder again what Xaden’s signet is—and if he’ll use it to kill me when I least expect it.
Damn it, I don’t want to find a single thing about Xaden Riorson admirable, and yet here he is, being all annoyingly admirable. Asshole.
Liam
“Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”
This is…this is…bizarre.
Fewer dragons are choosing to bond, but the number of riders entering the quadrant has remained steady.
cadet. “Dragons only talk to their bonded riders, just like they only give their full name to their bonded rider. You should know that by now.”
He’d probably think twice about plotting your murder if you threw a few daggers at his head.
let the darkness conceal me
It’s leaving you alive that seems to cause the majority of my trouble.”
My scalp prickles as each of our heads swivel in his direction.
Xaden is leaning against the tree, his arms folded across his chest, and behind him, watching with narrowed golden eyes, her fangs exposed, is Sgaeyl, his terrifying navy-blue daggertail.
🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
This happens when the bond is particularly strong and, in three documented cases, has even caused the untimely death of the dragon.
“No, but I can narrate,” Xaden retorts.
My arm is shot. My leg is shot. But at least I made Jack Barlowe run away before I died.
“You’re bleeding. Stop it.”
“One does not live a century without being well aware of the space one takes up. Now get on.”
“You are a rider, are you not?” “That seems up for debate at the moment.” My heart thunders. Is he going to cook me alive for being too slow?
“But I’m not going to assume that you’ll be able to remember that once we reach the field, so Tairn will do until I inevitably have to remind you.”
“You’re making us look bad. Stop it.”
know exactly who and what you are, Violet Sorrengail.”
“Stay close to the wingleader until we return,” Tairn orders. Surely he meant to say squad leader. “You heard what I said.” Or not.
Liam Mairi
Crying
But not Tairn. Nope, he’s still standing behind me like an overprotective dad.
“And you!” Jeremiah turns, his gaze locking on Garrick. “Damn it all to hell. He’ll know about—”
Not that I wouldn’t climb the man like a tree if presented with the right set of circumstances.
“And I’m not sure anyone lets Andarna do anything.”
He isn’t demanding proof like Dain. He believes me, and he’s ready to execute a wingleader on nothing more than my word.
My little sister was sent elsewhere.”
stomach… I mean, how many muscles are there in the abdominals?
“Stop objectifying our wingleader,”
Silver lines I instantly recognize as scars.
“You are astonishing.”
As though he can hear my thoughts,
“I’m sorry for not asking for the memory.” He drops his hand to my shoulder. “You’d better get to class.” And then he squeezes my shoulder gently before walking away.
