AGandyGirl’s Reviews > The Bright and Hungry Future of Hawks > Status Update

He’d known in his heart that when the blade fell, it would fall at just such a moment, a moment in their lives when everything was perfect. And he’d taken his anger, his frustration out on Ben. An anchor round his neck? Well, yes, in a way it was true. True in the sense that anchors held safe those in peril on the sea. Ben was his protector, his armour—made him safe. Ben made him loveable.

From where he waited in the shadows, it appeared to Aleksey that Ben wasn’t standing in candlelight, but that he created the illumination.

Sennybridge, and what he had seen there, was a threat to all of this. He’d known it the moment the fall had begun. A removal of a hood, a stare into the sunlight-through-jade exotically shaped eyes of a stranger, and the solid ground beneath his feet had given way, a plunge as physically real as if he stood on an unstable mountainside in some Godforsaken earthquake region of the world…

Seriously…Nik/Aleksey might be my favorite character of all time. ❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭😍😍😍

A scene 9 books and 8 years in the making. Worth the wait. ❤️

A kick to the back of one leg took this superb physical specimen to that very position, and then the hood was ripped off.
Aleksey raised his eyes from the man’s previously most interesting feature and then saw his face for the first time.

And so it begins… ❤️❤️❤️

Phew. Here we go.