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He looks at the lock and then back at me. “I will leave Rocco to ensure you are left unharmed.” “Ah! My best friend.” He gives me a look. “Mother and Father tried to protect me, too,” he says. “I remember. So does the pony.” “You might think you’re the clever and brave one, little brother, but don’t forget.” He smiles. “I found a way around them both.”

I remember clinging to my brother’s back, getting whipped by branches and leaves, laughing every time that pony tried to put its head down to buck, because Harristan would jerk its head up and swear in a very unprincely fashion.

Because it’s not. It’s a corpse. A body. Not the rogue who used to tease me and help me and protect me. Not the young man who pulled me against him and promised to return in an hour. Do not cry. I don’t.

I want to put daggers in the eyes of the king and his brother. Mind your mettle, Tessa.

. He didn’t want to go. He was right. It was too risky. He went for me. The gate guards have taken notice of me, and one of them calls, “Guess he won’t be making it home for supper, will he, girl?” They all laugh.

OML EVERYTHING IS FALLING APART AND WES AND TESSA ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES
NOWS NOT THE TIME FOR A DAMN KISS BRO

When there are calls for revolution,” I say to him, “we should be riding at the front, not hiding in the shadows

Allisander only has one black eye, but the bruising across his jaw and forehead seem to make up for it. It must have been too painful to shave around that perfect goatee, because it looks like he started before giving it up. Poor baby. The pain doesn’t stop him from railing at me during the consul meeting

I’d begun sketching caricatures of the consuls in the margins of my folio, complete with Nathaniel urinating on a pile of papers. Harristan glanced over, choked on a laugh, and drowned the sound in a sip of water. Stop it, he mouthed at me, and I grinned. Across the table, my mother gave us both a look, but her eyes were twinkling.

“They’re very handsome, don’t you think?” whispers Karri.
NO, I DO NOT THINK.
“They’re horrible,” I whisper.