Every time Gideon looked at the young heiress, she reminded him of the sea: steal-your-breath beautiful on the surface, with the promise of untold depths beneath.
“where a black ball of fur circled my legs like he had any right to be there. A Bombay cat I’d inherited after he’d somehow gotten into my lab, and I couldn’t, for the life of me, get rid of the damned thing.”
― Nocticadia
― Nocticadia
“He’d always imagined death to be the most painful experience of all”
― Eldritch
― Eldritch
“Perhaps you should walk alongside me, unless you insist on staring at my ass the whole way.”
― Anathema
― Anathema
“Dark silhouettes crawled from under the flowing chiffon, from the dark corners of the ceiling, from within the ghostly silhouettes of Alarus’s past kingdom.”
― The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk
― The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk
“And that was all it took. It all crashed down in an instant.”
― The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk
― The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk
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