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“And who are you?” I asked. “You may call me Kyriel.” “I call him Ky,” Aydun announced, like I gave a fuck.” 😂

“Standing before the dais was the nipple-pierced motherfucker.” 😂

“What…what are you?” If I had a coin for every time I’d been asked that, I’d…well, I’d have a shit ton of coins.”

I swear every page there’s a quote that’s too good 😂

“And now you scratch my button?” The god recovered quickly, her surprise vanishing as a scowl twisted her mouth. “Fuck your buttons,” she spat. “That sounds uncomfortable,” I replied, giving her a closed-lip smile. “So, I will have to pass on that.”

No one spoke. Until Millicent. “I don’t know why,” she said, gaze lingering on my left cheek where I knew the bone was visible. “But you’re really kind of hot”—she waved her hand in my direction—“like this.”

“I wanted to hate her because I hated myself.” Stop it 😭😭😭😭😭

“The sight of her destroyed me in one heartbeat and, the moment she became aware of my presence, remade me again.” 😫

I saw her. The sight of her stopped time. Crushed me under the weight of relief. Choked me with the desperation I still couldn’t shake. Shredded me with a rage so cold and unyielding that the icy knot throbbed in my chest. I was furious with myself.

“As he drifted forward, cloaked in deep-gray shadows and crimson smoke edged in silver. My entire body stilled as Primal mist coiled around his legs and waist. Heart thudding, I stared up at Casteel. He’d never looked more like a God of Death than he did now. And that was what he had become.”

“All that rage, grief, guilt, it all consumed me until there was nothing left but the ruin I unleashed and the wrath that followed.”