The curse was broken. Manon just stared at them, her breathing turning jagged. Then she roused Abraxos, and was in the saddle within heartbeats. She did not offer them any explanation, any farewell, a...
The council meeting was soon over, and Manon paused as she walked past Vernon on her way out. She put a hand on his shoulder, her nails digging into his skin, and he yelped as she brought her iron tee...
The Wing Leader said from behind her, Do you believe monsters are born, or made? From what she’d seen today, she would say some creatures were very much born evil. But what Manon was asking … I’m not...
The Captain of the Guard would be an interesting opponent. Maybe even worthy of some effort on her part.
That wildness, that untamed fierceness... They weren't born of a free heart, but of one that had known despair so complete that living brightly, living violently, was the only way to outrun it.
That cocky smile widened. Hello, bitch, Ansel purred.Hello, traitor, Aelin purred right back... Meet Ansel of Briarcliff, assassin and Queen of the Western Wastes.
That I would never be a gentle grower of things, or someone who burned like fire-but that i would be quiet and enduring and faceted as the night. That I would have beauty, for those who knew where to...
Thank you for finding her for me, my saviour said to them, smooth and polished. Enjoy the Rite. There was enough of a bite beneath his last words that the faeries stiffened. Without further comment, t...
Tarquin turned from the table, just as the tent flaps parted for a pair of broad shoulders—Varian. He didn’t so much as look at his High Lord, his focus going right to where Amren sat at the head of t...
Tamlin didn’t stop apologizing for days. He made love to me, morning and night. He worshipped my body with his hands, his tongue, his teeth. But that had never been the hard part. We just got tripped...
Sprawled across the top like a snake lay a familiar necklace of diamonds and rubies. I’d seen it before—in Tarquin’s trove. How … what? Amren smiled to herself. Varian sent it to me. To soften Tarquin...
Spell-Cleaver. That was his title. She surveyed him with her usual disdain. But Helion gave her the same bow he’d offered me—though his smile was edged with enough sensuality that even my heart raced...
Something to remember when fighting me, Sardothien, he panted. The sun caught in his golden-brown eyes. Hmm? she grunted, lunging to deflect his newest attack. I don’t lose. He grinned at her, and bef...
Someone fish out dear Amren before she catches a cold.
Some would say it’s unwise to insult a Fae in his home, Tamlin ground out. Some would say you should be grateful for me finding you before another one of my kind came to claim the debt, for sparing yo...
Some party, the stranger whispered in her ear. She twisted to see sapphire eyes gleaming at her. Are you from Melisande?
So Dorian closed his eyes, and took another long breath. And when he opened his eyes, he let her go.
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.And then she would remember how it had felt to be loved, when the world held nothing but possibility....
She would remake the world - remake it for them, those she had loved with this glorious, burning heart;
She lifted her face to the stars. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, heir of two mighty bloodlines, protector of a once-glorious people, and Queen of Terrasen. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius—and...