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‘This is instructive. I’ve seen you put half a dozen men in the dirt without breaking a sweat.’
‘Not right now, I couldn’t.’
‘I can see that. You’re relieved of your regular duties in the morning.’
‘That’s nice of you. I can’t get up. I’ll just lie here. Or did you need something?’
‘Oh, how did you know?’ said Laurent. ‘Take me to bed.’
Damen groaned and found himself laughing..

thought he didn't like sharing

Damen was a little stunned by the image. The blindfold covered Laurent’s eyes and emphasised his other features, the clean line of his jaw, the fall of his pale hair. It was impossible not to look at his mouth.

Sweetie focus!!!!

‘All right,’ he heard Lazar say.
He’d forgotten Lazar was there. After a long moment, he took his eyes off Laurent and looked back at Lazar, who was gazing at him with a rather dry but understanding smile quirking the side of his mouth.
'All right what?’ said Damen.
'All right, you’re not fucking him,’ said Lazar.

Oh but he wants too!! He very badly wants too.

‘He’s had suitors,’ said Jord. ‘Just none who got him into bed. Not for lack of trying. You think he’s pretty now, you should have seen him at fifteen. Twice as beautiful as Nicaise, and ten times more intelligent. Trying to tempt him was a game everyone played. If any of them had landed him, they’d have crowed about it, not kept quiet.’

Sickening!! That's a child you damned bitch.

‘Instead, you have saved my life, more than once. You have made fighters of these men, trained them, honed them. Tonight you handed me my first victory. My uncle never dreamed you’d be this kind of asset to me. If he had, he would never have allowed you to ride out of the palace.’

Holy shit!!

‘You’re alive,’ Damen said, and the words came out on a rush of relief that made him feel weak.
‘I’m alive,’ said Laurent. They were gazing at one another. ‘I wasn’t sure you’d come back.’
‘I came back,’ said Damen.

Laurent is right he didn't really have to come back. Hell, I would've just disappeared if I were him ...

The shaking, progressively, had worsened.
‘Stop enjoying yourself,’ Damen murmured. ‘We’re going to be killed, any minute.’
‘Giant animal,’ said Laurent.
‘Stop it.’

He's a brat 😂😂

‘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.🤦🏼‍♀️