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“With him, I feel free. Free in a way that I have never felt before. I don’t have to hold myself back or make myself less for him. I don’t have to choose my words carefully. For some reason, he makes me feel like the real me is enough. Like I’m enough. With him, I never feel as if I have to adapt my personality to fit the people around me. I can just be me.”

Just them talking about his wingspan :

Imagine?” He arches an eyebrow at me. “You’ve seen my wings several times now.” A devilish glint shines in his eyes. “Unless you were referring to something else?”
“Like what? Your ego?”
“You already knew that that’s massive too.”
“At least you’re self-aware.”

Troublesome, infuriating,” he mutters under his breath as he stalks into the bathroom, “insubordinate little⁠—“

I’m obsessed with their banter …

There is just something about a fantasy book that starts with trials that would always do it for me !

She asked him why it had wanted to dance with her : “Because now,” he begins, once more making his breath dance over my sensitive skin, “I have just put a gigantic target on your back.”
My heart drops and my stomach flips.
Draven draws back, and when he meets my gaze again, there is a wicked grin on his mouth. He winks. “You’re welcome.”

OBSESSED