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“You’ve bled for us. Why shouldn’t we bleed for you?”

“It is mesmerizing how the most beautiful things are the deadliest.”

"I did not deserve anyone as good as her. She was light, and I was shadow. She was warmth, and I was cold, dead ruin.
But gods help me, I would tear this world apart to keep her safe."

“I think that you like running from me, that you want me to chase you, to capture you, and force you to submit— to show you that you are the epitome of my desire, because that was something he never did. I think that you want to be conquered by me, but you are terrified of what that will mean . . . of what will be left of you.”

“When you smile, I feel as if there is happiness quivering on your lips, just here.” He brushes my mouth with the tip of his thumb. “And if I want it, all I have to do is…”
His mouth dips toward mine.

"I would like one soul in my life who would always choose me, above anyone or anything else."

“All I ask for, all I want, is your heart. I do not care if it is tarnished, if it has been blackened by lack of morality, if it is nothing more than stone and ash.”

“I want your heart, Drake.” She brushed her lips lightly across his, a thrum of power humming between them. Then she whispered, “And I want to wear it like a crown.”

"But any time she laughed, any time she spoke, any time she drew breath, it was as though time ceased to exist. If she was the stars, he was her sky. If he was the fire, she was his frost. She captivated him. Completed him."

"No one will hurt her without suffering immeasurable pain or death. Not anymore.
Not with me in her shadow."

"I barely scraped the surface of seeing his true heart, and by the gods, do I want it all. I want him."

“You think I am their destruction, little viper. But what if I am their salvation instead?”

"I lower my nose and skim it along her cheek, letting her feel my hot breath. 'You,' I murmur. 'You need to be a good fucking girl.'"

"My house. My chair. My woman." 🔥🫠

"I meant what I said on the parapet. Even when I'm not with you, there's only you."

"Treat her like the ally she is, or I swear, I will turn her against you. I will make her the enemy you never want to have, the one you cannot defeat."

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“You may not want it,” he breathed, feeling her pulse flutter beneath his touch. “But you are mine to keep safe.”

"Dreyden’s voice lowers. 'If you’d like to see me on my knees, all you have to do is ask.'"

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"Your tone of mistrust is rather irksome, Torsten. In need of a drink? A gentle embrace? Tell me how we can ease your frustration when it is I who have been traipsing across this gods-awful land arranging this game."

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“Hells, woman,” Valen muttered under his breath, drawing me into his side. “I have many plans to show you every improper thought rushing through my head the second we are alone. Prepare yourself.”

This man 🫠🔥

"There was nothing as beautiful as a prince with the power to slaughter—a man who was more villain to most than friend—twist his features in undeniable pleasure."

“I’ve done awful things in my life,” I confessed. “I’ve made mistakes and survived the worst men have to offer. But I regret none of it, more than I regret you.”

‘I just wanted to say I know what it feels like,’ Creon finally said, slowly, quietly, his gaze still trained on the flames. ‘To wake up one day and realise the game is not the game you thought it was, your allies are not the people you thought they were, and the rest of the world has every right to see you as a villain.’

“I’d burn with you till the end of it all, Dawndrinker.”

"She looked at him like he was a question answered. He looked at her like she was the only one worth asking."

“I’ll always make sure you’re safe. Even if it makes you hate me.”

“I’m the one who gets to decide who’s worthy of me. And I choose you every time.”