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King of Flesh and Bone (The Pale Court, #1) King of Flesh and Bone by Liv Zander
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“Worse than a god in rage is a god in love.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“One day, you will love me. And on that day, when you become wholly mine and nobody else’s, I shall open my gates and return to my divine duty.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“This will only hurt for a moment, my little one.” My heart stumbled over a beat before it hit the back of my throat. “No, please, Enosh. Don’t do this—” “Shh…” Warmth swathed me, coaxing my stiff muscles into a false state of ease. “Once we return, I’ll mend your bones.” Crk-crk-crk.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“Look what you made me do, little one. No king should chase his runaway servant, and certainly not into lands he hasn’t stepped on for nearly two centuries.” I didn’t want it to, but my face fell into the crook of his neck, letting tears run down his collarbone. “You broke my legs.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“As if he needed such drastic measures. “You broke my legs.” “Twisted,” he corrected with a sigh of annoyance. “A necessary precaution, because even gods are not all-powerful. The living are wicked, the lands we ride dangerous from what little you told me. I can’t satisfy my brother’s demand, keep you from running, and avoid danger all at the same time.” “Danger? You can’t die.” “No, but you can.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“You broke my legs.” “Twisted,” he corrected, as if it made a difference. He carried me over another bridge and from there, into a dark corridor. “Behave, and I’ll straighten them.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“Your heart will beat for eternity, and no age shall befall your warm body while in my service, little mortal.” The King’s dark whisper hushed against my sweat-pearled temple. “Welcome to the Pale Court.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“Look what you made me do, little one. No king should chase his runaway servant, and certainly not into lands he hasn’t stepped on for nearly two centuries.” I didn’t want it to, but my face fell into the crook of his neck, letting tears run down his collarbone. “You broke my legs.” “Twisted,” he corrected, as if it made a difference.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“He was a loving god. Together, we were a man and a woman, making love in the forest, unconcerned with the snapping of nearby twigs or the passing of time as the sun peeked through the thinning forest canopy.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“And I would hurt you again. I would break your bones, sour your flesh, meld your skin to mine. I would do all that and worse, if only to have you for eternity. That, Ada, is how much I desire you.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“Child or no, you are precious beyond all, and you have my devotion for eternity.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“Oh, flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, you desire this as much as I do. You crave the undivided attention of my touch, how I listen to your muscle’s every whim, answering your body’s every plea.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“above all, you are my woman.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“I’ve sometimes been quiet. Now and then, obedient. I’ve certainly never been both at the same time.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“for a god formed to perfection, her imperfections fascinated me the most.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“I am the heat between your legs, the throbbing in your cunt, the moan in your throat, the tremble in your bones, and the ache inside your belly, hungering to make me sate it.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“Love comes into existence between the flutters of a heart and grows awash in the heat at one’s core.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“Love comes unbidden and has no care for precautions, turning us into fools for liars and monsters.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“By nature, I fuck in godly ways,” he scoffed, tossing the rag into the tub with a splash.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone. Never my whore, forever my woman.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone
“Because he had broken my legs.”
Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone