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“A low growl rumbled in her chest, reminding me that she was the predator in this swamp.”

“As if she sensed me noticing something soft about her, she pressed harder, and I felt the sharp branch of her finger behind the foliage.”

hold on, wait a minute now 🫦

hold on, 🫦

“I had a human before,” she finally said softly.

“For the first time in years, a smile threatened to tug at my lips.
I leaned forward, close enough for my nose to brush across her chest. Her heart was beating so fast it drowned out all sounds around me.”

this is a demon doing this btw but she’s ethical(?) so it’s okay

“When Aris’s gaze met mine, my breath was stolen from my chest.
This woman—demon—is going to eat me.
Another thought followed that one.
Well, at least she’s hot.”

let’s hope this resets my reading appetite 🥳

“Yien and I were as close as I was with the twins. Meaning not at all. But unlike the twins’ massive pile of cash, Yien lived in the Shadow Realm, where the need for money was nonexistent. They lived off their powers and rarely came to auctions like these unless they were desperate.”

Small, delicately filed horns peeked from beneath their hair. Another sign of their heritage. Demons like myself and many others didn’t have the resources or even bothered to constantly file their horns. But for royalty, it was a must.
Everything about them had to be groomed for presentation to the inner courts—from their clothes to what they ate to even the women they fucked.

“To everyone who comes to me with hungry eyes and furtive desperation, whispering, “What’s it like after you leave?”

“His hand drifts over the back of Charlotte’s head and he strokes her hair. She’s so used to affection, so accustomed to being loved, she doesn’t even notice. It’s beautiful.”

“I would have loved you so well.”

The soft dawn paints him in undertones of blue, making him look nearly translucent. She wishes she could paint. The only way to capture the colors of his face would be in watercolor.

i/Inevitable/i, Val thinks. But the word yanks her back to those stairs, to the basement waiting at the bottom of them. i/Inevitable/i, her mind repeats, but it doesn’t quite sound like her own voice that says it.

“Something burst free, and I can’t bury it again.”

“the moment our hearts shattered? it belongs to us”

in a depressive grief loss of interest rut and hoping returning to my book-crazed roots will heal me a little

alongside never before seen doctor who, of course

“They wished each other luck. Emerald went through Central Asia and Russia, to no avail. It would be decades before Su found Emerald instead, saving her from the gallows in Finnmark.”