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How she could barely meet his gaze. How he leaned forward, forced her to see him, smiled. There. That moment. That smile. Again and again and again.

💔💔💔💔

What other secrets could she reveal before his coronation, when the role to protect his country would truly fall to him?

For the love of everything holy and good stop asking that question 😭😭

“This should be enough to cure one adult male,” she said, then clicked her tongue. “Awful timing, isn’t it?”

YOU HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HUMAN!! I HATE YOU.

The queen’s gaze jerked toward them, focusing on Cinder. A wash of surprise flashed over her face. Then hatred. Disgust.

Shiiit

“YOU’RE NOT MUCH FUN AT PARTIES, ARE YOU, SMALL HUMAN? ”
“I … uh … don’t get invited to parties very often.”
“I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY. SO ARE YOU GOING TO STOP WHINING AND COME GET EATEN LIKE A MAN? ”
“No.”
“YOU’RE MAKING MOTHER NATURE CRY .”
“Good. We could use more rain. Why don’t you go eat a cow?”

I just love this 😂😂😂

“The gift of smelling delicious to dragons? Sir, I never asked for this.”
“Just ’cause a gift is unexpected doesn’t mean it ain’t a gift.”
“A knife to the back can be unexpected. That doesn’t make it a gift either. Sir.”

😂😂

When was the last time he’d just enjoyed life? He ’d lost that skill, which seemed so natural to children. They didn’t have to work at having fun.

Never lose your inner child!! No matter how shit things get having us veeeery important.
And never listen to ppl who tell you you're too old for this or that. They are jealous and they don't know how to have fun.

“Would you consider being my personal guest at the ball?”
“E-excuse me?” Kai cleared his throat. Stood straighter. “I assume you are going to the ball?”
“I-I don’t know. I mean, no. No, I’m sorry, I’m not going to the ball.”
Kai drew back, confused. “Oh. Well…but…maybe you would change your mind? Because I am, you know. The prince. Not bragging,” he said quickly. “Just a fact.”


Awwww 😍

“ She’s the one who’s been threatening war for the last twelve years!”

She legitimate wants to marry somebody who want SIX years old when this marriage alliance talk starts WTF??! And like ik ik she wasn't originally trying to marry Kai but it's still fucking weird.

What would happen next? What could be worse than this?
Perhaps the Lunars would declare war.

He basically manifested into the world 😭😭😩

“I didn’t ask to be made like this. I didn’t ask for you or anybody to adopt me. This isn’t my fault!”

Heartbreaking

‘I’ll make every lord in the palace want to be you.’
Want to be you, and want to bid for me. It was so easy to play at pet that Ancel gave flirting with Berenger only half of his mind, the rest of him drinking in the fashion, the entertainments, and the attention he was garnering from all sides.

I just feel like this is gonna end so badly and I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

‘Damianos of Akielos,’ said Laurent.
Charls looked up—and up, and up—at the familiar face, warmly handsome, at the smile and the eyes that he knew so well.
‘Lamen,’ said Charls, in a shocked voice. ‘Why are you dressed up like the King?’

Charls is the nicest soul ever omg 😂❤️

‘My cousin told me,’ said Alexon, proudly, ‘he met a man who had once been a famous gladiator from Isthima. He lasted only minutes in the arena with Damianos. But afterwards Damianos had him in his chambers for six hours.’
‘You see? How could a man like that resist a beauty like the Prince?’ Guilliame sat back triumphantly.
‘Seven hours,’ said Lamen, frowning slightly.

Damen!!! Laurent is gonna be jealous

He was the prince’s private companion, and had no real skills whatsoever.
‘Guilliame, please teach Lamen to cook a rabbit,’ said Charls. The throbbing in his temple was threatening to become a headache.

He's actually the king of Akielos but sure let's go with the prince’s private companion 😂😂

‘You’re not going to sit in my lap this time?’ Lamen settled comfortably on the bench.
The Prince said, ‘Charls will faint.’
‘I don’t think it’s quite the mode for a young cloth merchant,’ said Charls.

Damen is being such a menace 😂😂

The Prince stayed with the horse while Lamen touched him on the shoulder, then arranged for a horsemaster to put the horse down. The Prince only rose when the horse was dead.

Laurent is such a sweetheart underneath all that pretending

And then he thought about it. ‘Who’s teaching you?’
‘Nikandros,’ said Laurent.
‘Nikandros,’ said Damen.
‘We use a Veretian variation. I don’t take my clothes off.’
Then you’ll never learn effectively. Instead, he found himself frowning, saying, ‘I’m better than Nikandros.’

This jealous lil shit

‘Believe you’d make it back to Akielos? Yes. I did. You were a force of nature. It was infuriating to fight you. Frightening to have you on my side.’
‘Frightening? ’
‘You didn’t know how afraid I was of you?’
‘Of me? Or of yourself?’
‘Of what was happening between us.’

‘I’ll take care of your son,’ said Laurent. ‘I’ll protect his kingdom as if it were my own. I’ll give my life for his people.’
When the coldest man you could ever imagine becomes the sweetest person ever

‘My mother planted these gardens,’ said Damen. His heart was pounding. ‘Do you like them? They’re ours now.’ Saying the word “ours” still felt daring.

They're too sweet together 🥰

‘I’m not fucking Huet,’ said Orlant. ‘He just turned up. Wearing that.’ ‘The Prince said everyone would be wearing one,’ said Huet, frowning. ‘At least you’re wearing something,’ Orlant told him, shrugging into the shirt. ‘The Prince sent you to Orlant’s rooms,’ said Jord, ‘wearing that?’

Laurent is scary.

My sweet nephew. We’ll trust your account. With one condition. If anything like this happens again, the Prince’s Guard will be disbanded.
Downing hard drink that night, Jord said to Orlant, ‘I’m not stupid. They’re going to use this to take down the Prince’s Guard.’

He was always doing this to him what a goddamned pice of shit creep.

Laurent said, ‘Our men have the gates and the halls. Ios is yours.’
‘And you,’ said Damen. ‘With your uncle gone, there won’t be resistance. You have Vere.’
‘And the centre. We both hold the centre,’ said Laurent. And then: ‘It was one kingdom, once.’

Omgggg yessss

‘ No,’ said Damen. He tried to move, and hit the limits of the chain. He said, ‘Laurent, he’s my brother.’

I REALLY WANNA HIT HIM. AND YES IM TALKING ABOUT DAMEN BCUZ OMG DUDE ARE YOU CRAZY???

‘Thank you,’ said Kastor, ‘brother.’ And he drew a knife from his belt, and ran it straight through Damen’s unprotected body. The shock of betrayal hit a moment before the physical pain that drove him a step back.

OH MY GOD DAMEN YOU ARE SOOOO STUPIDLY NICE AND NAIVE I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST FORGAVE HIM GOD JUST BE MAD WANT REVENGE!!!

‘I didn’t want you made a slave. When the Regent asked for you, I refused. It was Jokaste. She convinced me to send you to Vere.’
‘Yes,’ said Damen. ‘I’m beginning to understand that she did.’
Another step.
‘I’m your brother.’ Kastor said it, as Damen took another step, and then another. ‘Damen, it’s a terrible thing to kill your own family.’

Fuck this guy.

‘You came,’ said Laurent.
‘You knew I would,’ said Damen.
‘If you need an army to take your capital,’ said Laurent, ‘I seem to have one.’

Ofc he did!! He loves you.

‘This is the proof that King Aleron was killed by his own brother.’

Killed his brother and raped his nephew what a deplorable man. I'm soo disgusting

‘The last words of my brother, the archer Langren, carried by the soldier called Govart, and stolen by the Regent’s pet, Nicaise, who was killed for it. This is the testimony of the dead.’

Rest in peace Nicaise.