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That honest hate made him love her. He knew how unwilling she was in this marriage. So what happened on first night was him imposing on her. Using power difference as leverage. Shazard felt like she had to go through it. It was rape. I can't see beyond that. It’s no romance.

I still don't get that "Their marriage consummation and the night after " it clarifies in story that Khalid never entered any other brides chamber so, why? why would he violate her like that? Why would he perform on her one of the cruelest crimes you do to a person? Or is it supposed to be romantic and special because she's the exception? Because it also states in book that "he saw honest hate in her eyes"

"Nothing made sense. The girl he knew was not capable of such
fickleness. The girl he loved was too smart, too resourceful . . . too loyal to
be won over by a monster. Especially one who had murdered her best
friend."

For me there chemistry doesn’t makes sense....Khalid and Shahrzad’s..... i also believe it's Stockholm or the typical he is hot syndrome

Nothing made sense. The girl he knew was not capable of such
fickleness. The girl he loved was too smart, too resourceful . . . too loyal to
be won over by a monster. Especially one who had murdered her best
friend.

Where was that feeling of falling?
It’s here. I know it’s here. I can get it back.
I have to get it back.

Shahrzad’s baser instincts drove her to strike back at Yasmine for the
slight, but she refused to argue with the beautiful girl over a mercurial boy.

Monster? Hardly. Merely a boy-king.
And a dead one, at that.

When Tala’s eyes adjusted to the
darkness and she looked down, she saw her foot was caked in blood.
Hanging around her . . . were bodies. The bodies of young women. They
were Mehrdad’s—

When I was a little girl in Thebes, I remember asking my mother what heaven was. She replied, ‘A heart where love dwells.’ Of course, I then demanded to know what constituted hell. She
looked me straight in the eye and said, ‘A heart absent love.’”