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but it’s not like V’lane, who I’m gonna give my virginity to one day.
Dani…
Would chance it if it wasn’t Mac. They hurt her bad. She’s bloody everywhere. She’s my hero. I hate them!
Ahh 🥹
I grab Mac. Freeze-frame. Heart in my throat! Shadow-thing blocks my path! What is it?
And Barrons—what’s his deal? Doesn’t he want her alive? Why have they all abandoned her when she needs ‘em the most? Men. Dude, they suck.
Men
I drag my feet on the way to her cell, which, for me, means walking like a Joe. I
Eight men fan in V formation behind him, packing weapons from head to toe, draped in ammo, toting what look like Uzis.
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Couple of ‘em seem more animal than human. One of ‘em looks like Death himself, with white hair,
“Where’s Mac?” Barrons says,
Ahhhh!!! Mac
Something savage moves deep in his eyes. “I’ll decide that when I see Mac.”
Highlighting every time he calls her Mac
I’m gonna give Barrons my virginity one day.
Hahaha Dani! You get the next best thing 😉
Something looms over me. It is dark and powerful. It is electric. It is lust. It is not one of my princes, but my body arches and steams. Yes, yes, yes, you are what I need!
Barrons 😚
The creature that holds me now will do more than end my pain. It will fill all that is empty. It is an animal, too.
“No, Mac,” he says.
“There’s more to life than lust, Mac,”
“Be still, Mac. Bloody hell, would you just be still?”
Mac and a bloody hell in one highlight haha
I dream of cold places and fortresses of black ice. I dream of a white mansion. I dream of mirrors that are doorways to dreams and gateways to hell.
Hmmm
“I do not need to try. I will never feel differently.” “Ah, Mac,” he says, and his laughter is as dark and cold as the place of which I dream, “one day you will wonder if it’s possible to hate me more.”
“You must care, Mac.”
“Mac is your name. You are MacKayla Lane. Mac for short. It is who you are. You are a sidhe-seer. It is what you are. You were raised by Jack and Rainey Lane. They are your parents and love you. They need you very much. Alina was your sister. She was murdered.” “Stop talking!
“I was not always, Mac. There was a time when you didn’t even like me. You have never trusted me.”
I wait for his answer and am struck by a violent sense of déjà vu—that I have waited for many answers from my beast, and have gotten few, if any.
You give up and die, or learn how to take back. Revenge, Mac.”
“It’s a tree, Mac. You and Alina put one up every year. I couldn’t get a live one.
“What did you just say, Mac? When did I tell you that? Tell me about it!”
“Pink cakes, Mac. Tell me about pink cakes.”
‘Petunia’ is the word you say instead of saying ‘ass,’ Mac.”
She needs you to come back. Come back and fight, Mac.
🥲
“Because if you don’t find something to fill that hole, Mac, someone else will.
“What am I, Mac?”
“What did you wear to your senior prom, Mac?”
“Don’t leave me.” I thrash in the sheets. “I’m not, Mac.” I know I am dreaming then, because dreams are home to the absurd and what he says next is beyond absurd. “You’re leaving me, Rainbow Girl.”
AHHHH HIS RAINBOW GIRL
I laugh so hard I cannot breathe. “Oh, God, Barrons,” I finally gasp. “I never knew you could dance. Or have fun, for that matter.”
First Barrons since Priya
place of books and lights that falls to the enemy. It mattered to me, that place. I’d lost so much, but at least I had that place.
“Mac, we have to leave this room. It’s bad out there. It’s been months. I need you back.”
I need you!
“Church, Mac. Unseelie Princes. Remember?”
Remember V’lane? Was he there, Mac? Was he at the church? Was he?”
“You can do this, Mac. I’m here.
or evolve. It was too awful for me to contemplate. “Maybe the fourth was you, V’lane. How do I know it wasn’t?”
“Feck the Garda,” one of his men shouted. “We’re the Guardians! A new force for a new world!”
“You think you can steal from me? You’re out of control, Rainbow Girl.”
“Bloody hell, have you learned nothing?”
“Don’t lose yourself in anger, Mac. It’s gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you—only your body doesn’t have the good grace to quit breathing.”
I care!” “You wouldn’t if you knew me!” “I do know you.” “Leave me alone!”
Oh Dani
As we walked out of the electronics store, I caught a glimpse of her face in the mirror above the door. It was bleak.
Ooooo forshadowing what Dani did
“Hey, beautiful girl.” My gaze jerked to the bartender and I did a double take. It was the dreamy-eyed boy that I’d first met while scouring a museum for OOPs
Dreamy-eyed boy everywhere! Almost like he’s magic or something bahgaha
“Don’t talk to it, beautiful girl. Never talk to it.” I gaped. “Her, you mean? The Gray Woman?” “It.” He spat the word with such revulsion that I flinched.
It?????!!!’
“You’re still standing because of that one, Mac.” He nodded at the room he was staring into. “Don’t forget it. Never seen anything like her, and I’ve seen a lot.”
Ryodan!? Stop
Amber torches in brass sconces illuminated the deep limestone archway of the bookstore’s grand alcoved entrance. Ornate cherry diamond-paned doors, nestled between limestone columns, gleamed in the light.
Description of BB&B
On the second, third, fourth, and fifth floors, bookcases line each wall from base to cove molding. Behind elegant banisters, catwalks permit access, while ladders slide on oiled rollers from one section to the next.
