He was the test I hadn’t studied for, the quiz I was bound to fail. Out of my depth.
Her amber eyes burned into mine with all the hate and loathing she could muster. Underneath, though, she was terrified. Hate and loathing didn't bother me, but fear was a powerful emotion. Fear causes...
I didn’t want or expect this. But I couldn’t resist you.
I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the...
I found a few springs of rosemary and returned. Ignoring the collective sigh when I appeared, I stripped off the leaves and handed them to Loren.He sniffed them in suspicion. What's this?I guess it wo...
I never pretended with you.
I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.
I searched the plateau. Where was the Sandseed army? The earth undulated as if the sand had liquefied. The waves on the ground grew. I clamped a hand over my mouth to stifle a cry of surprise. Row upo...
I understood that Valek’s loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine.
Is it considered improper if Valek and I...? You know.''Yelena,' Leif said with mock indignation. 'Don't tell me you and Valek--''Just answer the question.
It's a good thing you can't read my mind, love.
It's the , not the results that matter.
It’s incomprehensible to me why a magician would create something that can be used against him. It’s like giving your sword to your previously unarmed enemy, and then being surprised when he stabs you...
I’m sure you’re just dying to tell me all the campus gossip about me. Right?I do have a life. Maybe I’ve been too busy to listen to rumors, he huffed, pretending to have hurt feelings.I looked at him....
Knife fighting was his forte, but he wouldn’t have time to have a proper match. Pity.
Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies.He grinned. No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.
One thing Valek did know how to do - sew. The other assassins hadn't called him the King Knitter for nothing.
One, and two, and three, four, five. Keep fighting like this and you will die, Janco sang.
Oscove? Valek paused. He didn't have the stomach for it.
Your life is like this snake's coils. No matter how many turns it makes, you'll end up back where you belong.
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