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‘That isn’t why. She would have chosen him even if you’d had royal blood in your veins, even if you’d had the same blood as Kastor. You don’t understand the way a mind like that thinks. I do. If I were Jokaste and a king maker, I’d have chosen Kastor over you too.’

Omg chapter 6 is my fav so far.

‘My honourable barbarian. I wouldn’t have picked that as your type.’
‘Type?’
‘A pretty face, a devious mind and a ruthless nature.’

That fact that THIS is exactly what Laurent is.

I don’t know. I don’t know why.
I don’t know what I did to make him hate me as much as this. Why we couldn’t go as brothers to mourn—
—our father—

Baby! I'm gonna be so nice when I say this, HE ALMOST KILLED YOU WHEN YOU WERE 13. ARE YOU STUPID? HE HATES YOU! AND HE ENVYS YOU.🤦🏼‍♀️

Laurent said, ‘I don’t think I would have arrived here without your help, at least not without being followed. I am glad you came. I meant that. You were right. I’m not used to . . .’ He broke off.


Wow he can say nice things....

‘All right. Give me some coin. I want to play that man at cards.’
Laurent rose, leaning his weight against the table. Damen reached for the purse, then paused. ‘Aren’t you supposed to earn gifts with service?’
Laurent said, ‘Is there something you want?’
His voice was sinuous with promise; his gaze was steady as a cat’s.

You folded soo fast dudeee 🤦🏼‍♀️

‘I want your best room,’ said Laurent, ‘with a big bed and a private bath, and if you send up the house boy, you’ll find out the hard way that I don’t like sharing.’
‘He’s expensive,’ said Damen to the innkeeper, by way of apology.

Oh Laurent!!!!! Damnnn

‘Damianos of Akielos was commanding troops at seventeen. At nineteen, he rode onto the field, cut a path through our finest men, and took my brother’s life. They say—they said—he was the best fighter in Akielos. I thought, if I was going to kill someone like that, I would have to be very, very good.’

Ahhhhhhhh!!! If only you knew 💀

‘It would erode my authority. My carefully cultivated authority. Now I have really surprised you. Perhaps if you were not a foot taller, or quite so broad across the shoulders.’
‘It’s considerably less than a foot,’ said Damen.
‘Is it? It feels like more when you argue with me on points of honour.’
‘I want you to know, that I haven’t done anything to encourage the idea that I—that you and I—’

Im enjoying this

‘Say it,’ said Laurent.
‘You broke a man today. Doesn’t that affect you at all? These are lives, not pieces in a chess game with your uncle.’
‘You’re wrong. We are on my uncle’s board and these men are all his pieces.’
‘Then each time you move one of them, you can congratulate yourself on how much like him you are.’

Oh Damen shut up!! Everyone has their own strength.

His own reaction had him feeling oddly off balance. It was just that it was—unexpected. He had not known this about Laurent, that he was trained like this, capable like this. He wasn’t sure why he felt as though something, fundamentally, had changed.

Simple bcuz you don't just see him as a pretty thing that needs protection anymore. You see him as a man, a future king.