Status Updates From Scorpion Deep

“This is love, this is fractious worship and ruinous adoration; this is what he has always wanted.”

“You are a soft and wondrous thing,” Scorpion says, enraptured with adoration, “and I adore these bones that cage your coral heart. If you were to be cut from me, I would not bear it. I would drown the entire world before I let anyone part me from my new love. I will never allow your corpse to turn to sea-foam before my eyes. I want you, only you, tucked up between my teeth and carried between my rib bones.”

“This is not allowed.” Indignant rage rises in his voice. “None may touch you except me. I own you. If you are to be bled or maimed, it is to be by my hand only.”

okay scorpion deep, i’m listening

HAZELTHORN MENTION OMG

“She was related to the Lennox-Halls and—well, you probably haven’t heard of them, but they’re very comfortable.”

“You’re not leaving Kelcarrow or my house. Try it and you’ll end up like your mother. That’s a promise, kiddo.”

OH GOD, i’m nervous

“It’s the way his father says kiddo. As if his son’s fresh blood isn’t flecked across the wallpaper upstairs. But out here they can be seen, can be heard, and his father enjoys being liked.”

This books is going to hurt, isn’t it?