Eclipse of the Crown (Villains & Virtues, #3)

by A.K. Caggiano

screamed good. Not GOoD, just good.

But then, that was what the Grand Order of Dread was wont to do in their own, private dimension when one deigned to break their insufferably arbitrary rules.

huh

“Mine.”

The rest of these villains are just uncouth, and I prefer nuance to my cruelty.”

It would have been much easier with Amma—all things were, really—but a much bigger risk too, and she would be too willing to help.

How he would live without her voice and touch once he had to let her go, he didn’t know, but for at least a little while longer, he didn’t have to find out.

The vaxin dipped a paw into the shallow puddle there and then slid into it, flopping over onto his back and sprawling out.

“I didn’t want to stay in the karsts by myself.” She took a deep, steamy breath, throat tightening on the words. “Not without you.”

rest of the scrolls and apologizing profusely. Sometimes pushiness was necessary, she realized, but there was no reason not to be polite.

“When I’m with you, I just feel like things will be okay, I guess.”

“I recognize the symbolism here,” he said, eyes boring into her, “but you’re better than this, Ammalie. You are benevolent and merciful, and you don’t require retribution—” “I would never!” She gasped, pressing a hand to her chest. “But you said you wanted to see where this goes. And it is what the oracle told us would happen, so I fully agree that we need to follow through.”

Skoob had caught his breath and scrambled across the chamber to Amma where he fell to his knees, a poor replacement for Damien.

He could scarcely believe that this was how he was destined to hear that word from Amma’s lips.

I didn’t want to eat them but they kept coming to hit me with sticks.

But the worst of it was that dying meant leaving her.

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Vanders rode on his back, tiny paws clutching his fur.

Someone who had given him such goodness in return for less than nothing, someone who made him think, even if he knew it was impossible, that he could actually love.

He told her he wanted to be consumed, but he already had been, his ensnarement as permanent as the noxscura that ran through his veins. It may have not been in the way that humans were meant to, but he loved her.

crying sobbing

“You’ll be all right,” she said, insistence to her voice. “I’ll protect you.” The horribleness that had settled on him lifted then, just enough so that Damien could continue on.

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You can do this for whatever reason you want, Xander, but I’m here because I love Damien.” Tears pricked at her eyes, the truth slamming into her as the words burst out.

“Oh, and you brought that little harlot.” Who did she think she was, Kaz?

“Over here, boy, come on! Come to Shadowhart, you know you want to.”

“I am in love with you, Amma, utterly and unconditionally, until my last breath and beyond.”

I love you now more than I ever have, and deeper than I’ve ever felt.”

So, she would be razing the temple to the ground after all. They really should have been kind to him.

He’d been wrong about a lot of things, a dose of truth that did him very little good when he was tied to a stake, but at least his maturing cognizance represented growth, and what more can one ask of a human man?

the only thing he thought to lament was not telling Amma he loved her sooner. Because it had always been true, he had just been too stupid to realize and too afraid to say, and he mourned not having a moment longer with her.

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and Perry just memorized a new spell for punching holes in things.”

“Oh, you look awful!” “Yeah, I died.”

She was covered in gore, hand prints of blood on her face, hair a mess, ragged circles under her eyes, and she was the most beautiful and powerful thing he’d ever seen.

TOLD YOU SHE WOULD NOT BE INTERESTED. WELL, IT WAS WORTH ASKING. WAS IT, THOUGH? THIS IS VERY EMBARRASSING. YES, AND THIS CONVERSATION IS EVEN MORE EMBARRASSING.

picking up Amma the moment she was introduced and nearly squeezing the life out of her. Though, Amma supposed, she should have really expected all of those things since Damien was his son, after all.

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Damien Maleficus Bloodthorne, demon spawn, blood mage, son of a priestess, and brand new fiance, however, never even made the list.