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"Besides, if you're a monster, what am I? If you're depraved, l am, too, you f*cking asshole. You don't get to claim my worst actions as yours. I make my own choices. And this thing between us?"

She steps in close, reaching her hands up to cup my face. And with her touch comes connection - she opens herself mentally, and it's faster than ever this time, sliding into that place in our minds.

"Besides, if you're a monster, what am I? If you're depraved, l am, too, you f*cking asshole. You don't get to claim my worst actions as yours. I make my own choices. And this thing between us?"

She steps in close, reaching her hands up to cup my face. And with her touch comes connection - she opens herself mentally, and it's faster than ever this time, sliding into that place in our minds

"I hate to be the person to make her cry when every part of me screams that I'm meant to guard her... But this is the only way to protect her in the long run.

To protect us both.

Because she will live to regret me, and I don't know that I'd ever be able to let her go."


/ Stark

"We should get some sleep," Stark says quietly. "We have a long journey tomorrow."

We ready the sleeping pallets in silence. Get into them next to each other in silence. Close our eyes, pretending to sleep in silence. At least I'm pretending.

Because all night long I burn and I burn and I burn.


/ Meryn

"Anassa circles around Saela and Meryn, snapping at anyone who gets too close.

It's a relief to be unleashed, after weeks - months, really - of being on passably good behavior.

This is me at my best. At my worst.

Myself."

/ Stark

"What happened to "My Queen"?" I ask, bristling at his commanding tone.

"Act like a filthy little Princess and get treated like one, Your Highness."

/Meryn

"What happened to 'my queen'?" I ask, bristling at his commanding tone.

"Act like a filthy little princess and get treated like one, Your Highness."

/Meryn

"Our country needs her to be a steady leader, and I'd only corrupt her. The depraved part of me longs for it."

/ Stark

"If someone told me I'd one day lose sleep to keep a Siphon safe from harm. I'd have laughed in their face. And then probably snapped their neck for good measure because they were too stupid to live."

/ Stark

"She's ruined and regal in the same breath.

Heat lashes through me, urgent and unyielding."

/Stark