Hollie’s Reviews > Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2) (Parts 1 & 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] > Status Update

“…My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damn good thing that you love me too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.”

Lock me away in a padded room. I’m FERAL, screaming, crying.

“You want to know something true? Something real? I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair, and you kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is tied to yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it…

The found family hits SO GOOD when interrogations start honestly I can’t stop smiling. It’s even better the second time around.

Also well fucking done to Xaden for trusting Vi to handle it and even leaving when he had to return to duty. Good boy 👏👏

“Violence, remember it’s only the body that’s fragile. You are unbreakable.”

I’m going to THROW UPPPP!! He never once judges her for her physical weaknesses. He always respects her inner strength, cunning, bravery and intellect. This mannnn 😩

Xaden literally holding Violet off the ground and against his body by putting a strong arm around the small of her back? Pulling her flush to him like she’s more essential than the air in his lungs? Like she IS the air in his lungs?? I’m gonna fucking crash out for the 9,682,764th time.

“In the years after my father died, I forgot what it felt like to be loved. Then I entered the quadrant and became the monster everyone needed me to be, and I never regretted it. But then you gave those words to me, and I remembered.”

My heart is in pieces all around me 😭 They’re SOULMATES! 😭

They’re talking about Liam and I don’t know why it only just hit me now. The symmetry, the yin yang, of the strongest rider in the year being paired with the weakest. Forming such a close bond, becoming friends and comrades. The symmetry of them saving each other’s lives, though it cost Liam his. Goddddd why do I do this to myself 🥺😔

Not Tairn standing in the river with Violet to cool her down after being so protective over her during her punishment and she’s safely held in his talons with all that power around her to keep her safe aaahhhhh I LOVE HIM DOES ANYONE HEAR ME 😩😩

“Figured I’d ask, just in case you were holding back secret dragon knowledge.”
“I’m always holding back secret dragon knowledge”

Tairn is my hear me out, argue with a wall.

“I want you more than my next breath, but I can’t fuck you into thinking about me like you used to. I refuse to use sex as a tool to get you back.”
He takes my hand, and presses it to my chest.
“Not when I want to be, here.” 😭
[…]
“I want you more than I want to fuck you. I want those three little words back.” 😩

Not me actually screaming in the car listening to this.