Dreamfever (Fever #4)

by Karen Marie Moning

“V’lane told you a lot.” Barrons sounded irritated. “He tells me more than you do. Makes me wonder who to trust.” “Motto to live by: Never trust a fairy. Did he tell you how the king’s concubine died?” “He said she hated what the king had become so much that she left him the only way she could. By ending her own life.” “Did he bother pointing out that everything the king had done, he’d done for her? Did she think of that before she decided to kill herself? Did it ever occur to her that sometimes a willingness to turn dark for someone else might just be a fucking virtue?” “It doesn’t sound like he went dark for her. It sounds like he was ticked off that she was going to die and willing to do anything to keep her.” “Perspective, Ms. Lane. Get some.” The Lord Master had said the same thing. “You think the concubine should have appreciated that her lover turned into an obsessed jackass and overlooked the horrific results of his experiments? Maybe if instead of spending all his time—wasn’t it tens of thousands of years she waited?—trying to make her live forever, he’d just loved her for the mortal lifetime she had, she’d have been happy!”