She was shaking so badly that she tucked her hands into her pockets and clamped her lips together to lock up the words.But they danced in her skull anyway, around and around. You should have gotten D...
Eyllwe, Chaol breathed. Send word to Eyllwe. Tell them to hold on—tell them to prepare. Perhaps it was the light, perhaps it was the cold, but Aedion could have sworn there were tears in the captain's...
I knew another women who lost as much as you. And do you know what she did with it-the loss?' He could barely stop the words from pouring out, could barely think over the roaring in this head. 'She hu...
You're going to keep a low profile throughout the entire competition... You're going to stay solidly in the middle, where no one will look your way, because you're not a threat, because they'll think...
You deserve to be happy, he said. And meant it. She deserved the joy he so often glimpsed on her face when Rowan was near—deserved the wicked laughter she shared with Aedion, the comfort and teasing w...
With each day he felt the barriers melting. He them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew that she wo...
In every way that counted, I failed him.
Aelin hissed, Need I remind you Captain, that you went to Endovier and did not blink at the slaves and the mass graves? Need I remind you that I was starved and chained and you let Duke Perrington for...
Right, Chaol said. So you're just...memorizing that information now?If you're suggesting that I have no reason to be here and to leave, then tell me to go. I'm just trying to figure out what's so bori...
He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. I love you.
Are you as deft at handling your sword as Captain Westfall?Better, he whispered in her ear.
I've never seen anyone move like she did, Chaol breathed. I've never seen anyone run that fast. Dorian, it was like... Chaol shook his head. I found a horse within of her taking off, and she outran...
Maybe this city did deserve Aelin Galathynius’s flames. Maybe Chaol deserved to burn, too.
And then, Ress was saying, his boyish face set with fiendish delight, just as he got her into bed, stark naked as the day he was born, her father walked in- winces and groans came from the guards, eve...
No matter what happens, she said quietly, I want to thank you.Chaol tilted his head to the side. For what?Her eyes stung but she blamed it on the fierce wind and blinked away the dampness. For making...
The wrath Chaol found in Aelin’s eyes was world-ending. You bring my court into this, Chaol, Aelin said with lethal softness, and I don’t care what you were to me, or what you have done to help me. Yo...
I'm not ill like that, she groaned. He sat on her bed, peeling back the blanket. A servant entered, frowning at the mess on the floor, and shouted for help.Then it what way?I,uh... Her face was so hot...
She watched him, her head angled. He sometimes felt that she looked at him the way a cat regards a mouse. He just wondered how long it would take for her to pounce.
She stared at the castle unflinchingly, her form silhouetted against the blazing brightness that sat on the edge of the Avery River. Clouds gathered above them and she raised her head. Through a clear...
In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams. But he knew her thoughts weren't of him.She stopped and stared upward...
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