Status Updates From Magic Claims (Kate Daniels:...

Her long brown hair was matted with blood. Her little horns protruded from her forehead.
She twisted her body into a sitting position, dragging an injured leg, and cried out a little.


☹️🥺

Uncertainty flared in Conlan’s eyes. Up until now he hadn’t considered the possibility that his father and I might not make it. It was a lot for an eight-year-old.


👏🏻 as early as they could understand it

I turned to Conlan. “Jushur and Rimush are our people. If something happens to your father and me during this battle, it’s your responsibility to safely get them out of danger. Jushur is an older man, and he might need your help.”


🥹😭 it’s not “who you’re safe with and to seek protection” it’s who to protect 👏🏻

“I would fight the whole world for that smile.”
“You can’t say things like that.”
“Yes, I can.”
Oh my God. He was looking at me like I was the center of his universe.
“Because you’re the Beast Lord?”
“Because I’m your husband.”

🥺😭🥰🥹

“You built the Pack so when you had a family, it would be protected. I took that away from you and put you back into a place you worked so hard to avoid. I’m sorry. This isn’t what I wanted. Making you deal with the possibility that history might repeat itself isn’t what I wanted. I never meant to hurt you.”
🥺

“You and I discussed this prior to me inviting the Lennarts and their people here. I told you what might happen. You agreed that it was a small price to pay. Now you’re just playing it up for the crowd.”


🙂‍↕️

“Because you insist on hobbling yourself. Your fear of following in my footsteps cripples you. You don’t have to be me, Blossom. You don’t have to be your aunt.”


awww 🥹🥰

“No need to stand. You can sit and look menacing.”
“Thank you, my queen.”
“Yes, be grateful that I’m a wise and benevolent ruler.”


👸 🤣

“I enjoyed it.” And there it was. I said it and waited.
“I know,” he said. “After you killed the skull mage, you turned to me and you were smiling. A big, bright smile. Old Kate smile.”
“Old Kate?”
“Dangerous Kate. Stabby Kate. My Kate.”


🤣🤣🤣

The collision was colossal. The armored beast collapsed on his side. The impact shook the wall.
Owen galloped off, roaring like the fool he was, made a tight circle, and went in for seconds.


🤣🤣

“Turn! Owen, turn!”
Owen would not be turning. He was a bull werebison who had spotted a larger challenger in his territory. I knew exactly what was going through his bovine brain right now.
Hit that guy. Hit him real hard. Show him who’s the strongest.”


🤣🤣

If I knew my wife, by the time I got there she’d be over the wall and giving our visitors a warm welcome.

🙂‍↕️ uhuh

“Your lack of trust is very disappointing.”
“I trust you with my life, not with yours,” my husband said.


🤣🤣🤣

“My wife needs a medmage,” Curran said. “She will tell you that she is fine, and she doesn’t need help. She isn’t and she does.”
“You made your point,” I told him.


🤣🤣 “yeah yeah stop it now”

“and before you know it, he’ll talk you into letting him do something everyone will regret. Treat him like a smart, conniving teenager. Above all, please keep him away from Penderton.”
Luiza smiled. “I can handle him. No problem.”
Famous last words.


🤣🤣🥹

English letters were a lot easier to write through a vampire than Shinar’s flowing sigils. There were few things better for training precision navigation than writing out your family’s lineage in a dead language while your aunt despaired over the sad state of your calligraphy.


🤣 she’s running a tight ship

“Yes. If I wasn’t there. If Keelan and his people weren’t there that night, could you have fought both?”
A little bit of gold rolled over his eyes. “I would fight.”
Okay. Yes. He probably would. “But would you win?”


🤣 Conlan is so adorable 🥹

At some point in our lives together, keeping her lovely family from trying to murder her became a full-time job for me. They were powerful, homicidal psychopaths, and they didn’t half-ass it. When they came to kill her, they gave it their all.
Her eyes sparked. “You wanted to kill me at some point.”
“No. The most I promised to do was to throw you out of a window.”

🤣

I opened my eyes, looked up at the white ceiling, and thought, “Who will I have to fight next to keep us safe?”
I’d punched that voice back down, because I decided that I wasn’t going to spend my life waiting for the other shoe to drop. Still, over the years, it kept piping up here and there.


😔 it be like that