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WAIT WHAT?!?

“You made a vow. Now follow through or learn to dread me with the rest of them.”

Ah, sisters…

“You don’t deserve to have the best boobs in the family if you’re not going to use them to seduce our enemies.”

“Obviously we all know it’s a political marriage, but you really seem to have won him over. A lot of the women here are wondering how you did it,” Cora says. It’s as if one question uncorked all of the words inside her. “How did you do it?”

“I tried to kill him,” I say. “Sadly, it didn’t take.”

The threat heats my blood, but I cross my arms. “Let’s get one thing straight. This will not be the kind of marriage where you tell me to stay. I will not be brought to heel, no matter what kind of monster you fancy yourself. If you make yourself something to fear, I promise I’ll make myself worse.”

“Bold of you to assume you can imagine all the ways I loathe you.”

“ This world is plagued with men who only know how to speak with their fists, and I have made myself a monster for them.”


(I love it so far but will probably be reading this one pretty slowly as I don’t have a ton of downtime right now… 🤪📚)

“As much as we have in common, this has always been where Aidia and I differ. She wants to make her problems everyone’s problems by dragging them out into the light. I’ve always been content to take care of injustice in the dark.”