emily

“Only slightly red from the pressure, the markings would be gone in just a few moments, but he rubbed his thumbs over the soft flesh on the inside of her wrists anyway. “Apologies if I was too rough for your liking.” She shook her head, still averting her gaze as he tried to find it with his own. “I see. Tighter next time, then,” he whispered”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Hmm, well, nice skin you have.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark

“and he wasn’t going to have the woman walk—that would be too time consuming and perhaps needlessly cruel.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark