His answering smile evoked silken sheets and jasmine-scented breezes at midnight.
He’d seen the look on her face when Archer had mentioned Sam. He’d heard of Sam Cortland’s death in passing. He’d never known that Celaena and Sam had crossed paths, that Celaena had ever … ever loved...
Hers was not a story of darkness. This would not be the story. She would fold it into herself, this place, this fear, but it would not be the whole story. It would not be her story.
Her Second, her cousin, her friend, smiled, eyes bright as stars. Live, Manon.Manon blinked.Asterin smiled wider, kissed Manon's brow, and whispered again,
He studied my face. There are a great many things that I wish to do, and don’t get to.
Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will always love you.
Duly noted. Rhys yanked open the drawers and pulled out my undergarments. He dangled the bits of midnight lace and chuckled. I’m surprised you didn’t demand Nuala and Cerridwen buy you something else....
Darrow shook his head. Why? Not about her magic being whittled to nothing. But why she had gone to face them, with little more than embers in her veins. Terrasen is my home, Aelin said. It was the onl...
But now, faced with Ressina’s communal studio, already hearing the laughter flitting out from where she and others had gathered for their weekly paint-in, my resolve sputtered out. I don’t know if I c...
But all she could see was the unconditional love in that dying wyvern’s eyes as she unbuckled her harness, stood from the saddle, and leapt off Abraxos.
But Rowan flicked her chin, and she knew he understood what it meant, to have summoned even a droplet to her hand. To feel her mother smiling at her from realms away. She grinned at Rowan through her...
Borte had gone back to studying the Fae males. Not their considerable beauty, but their size, their pointed ears, their weapons and elongated canines. Aelin whispered conspiratorially to the girl, Mak...
Because your human joy fascinates me—the way you experience things, in your life span, so wildly and deeply and all at once, is … entrancing. I’m drawn to it, even when I know I shouldn’t be, even whe...
Because for Terrasen, for Erilea, Elena would walk into the eternal darkness lurking across the valley to buy them all a chance. Elena sent up a final prayer on a pillar of smoke rising from the valle...
At least she speaks well, his father said, sipping from his wine. Chaol clenched his free hand so hard his glove groaned. Better than that other one—the swaggering assassin. Yrene knew. All of it. She...
Archer let out a breath, and she turned to find him grinning, slowly shaking his head.I think ‘stunning,’ ‘beautiful,’ and ‘dazzling’ are the words you're looking for.
And then they appeared. Along the edge of the foothills. A line of golden-armored warriors, foot soldiers and cavalry alike. More and more and more, a great line spreading across the crest of the fina...
And from far away, Aelin heard another woman’s voice. Make sure that they’re punished someday. Every last one of them. They will be, she’d sworn to Kaltain. They had lied. Had betrayed Elena and Erile...
And I said, You love me? Rhys nodded. And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him. I set the bowl down before him. Then eat.
Aelin would have been beside herself with glee.