You’re my princess, right? You were always going to be my princess, no matter what you were born, no matter who your dad married.
His eyes were the colour of gold, of sunflowers and butterscotch and lemons hanging heavy on their boughs – Jest.
Winter shook her head, apology swimming in her amber eyes. Scarlet would have wanted to hug her if she hadn’t simultaneously wanted to strangle her.
Whatever he’d once felt for Cinder – or thought he’d felt for her – was over.
After an agonizing silence, Levana tittered. “My dear Emperor. How could I resist such a charming proposal?
Sometimes Nova felt like the Renegades of the past had more in common with the Anarchists than anyone dared to admit.
If she was alive, she would be the rightful heir to the Lunar throne. She could end Levana’s reign. She could save them all.
A reality show about a group of children attempting to run their own small country.
Leave it to Winter to make a bunch of sadistic, hot-headed predators get all swoony over her.
For my next trick, I will win a staring contest with the moron in orange sunglasses.
She looked like she hadn’t given a passing thought to her hair or clothes that day, maybe ever. She was pretty, but not exceptionally so. Not noticeably so, until you bothered to look. Kai realized, with some surprise, that he was looking. Which.
They said she’d killed her niece, her only threat to the throne. Princess Selene had only been three years old when a fire caught in her nursery, killing her and her nanny. Some conspiracy theorists thought the princess had survived and was still alive somewhere, waiting for the right time to reclaim her crown and end Levana’s rule of tyranny, but Cinder knew it was only desperation that fueled these rumors. After all, they’d found traces of the child’s flesh in the ashes.
The expression made her uncomfortable – the look that suggested she was a china doll, easily shattered.
She was desperate to see Kai again. To kiss him. To be in his arms. To laugh at his ironic jokes and watch his eyes crinkle when he laughed at hers. It.
That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good – for who am I to presume what is good for others?
There was an abyss opening up between them, cutting through whatever they’d shared on the train.
Your future is written on stone, but not in it.
When I was figuring out what to say for the wedding, I kept thinking about you and me.” Cinder jolted. “I knew it!” Kai’s eyebrows shot upward. “I mean, there seemed to be a lot of overlap,” she added. “Especially that part about defying race and distance and physiological tampering.” He.
She choked on a sob. She felt like she was drowning, and desperation was clawing at her, her lungs trying to breathe, but there was no air left.
The fairest queen that Luna had ever known. For once, she was satisfied. She had Evret. She had her crown.