There were many, many debts to be paid before she left Rifthold and took back her throne. Starting now. Fortunate that she was in a killing sort of mood.
Gently, he pulled my hands away from my face. Gently, he took my cheeks in his hands and brushed away my tears. I didn’t care that we had an audience as I lifted my head and beheld the joy and concern and love shining in those remarkable eyes. Neither did Rhys as he murmured, “My love,” and kissed me. I.
If it’s any consolation,” Rhysand confided to him, “she would have been the one for you – and you might have gotten away with it. A bit late, though. She’s more stubborn than you are.
This was not the end. This crack in him, this bottom, was not the end. He had one promise left.
Aedion shrugged. “I find pleasure in both, depending on my mood and the person.” One of his former lovers still remained one of his closest friends – and most skilled commanders in his Bane. “Attraction is attraction.
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 hunted down the people responsible for it and obliterated them.
I couldn’t help my blush. Especially as Rhys added, Tonight, I want you to wear that crown to bed. Only the crown. Scoundrel. Always. I.
The king standing before them gaped as the shield of flame died out to reveal Aelin and Dorian, hand in hand, glowing like newborn gods as their magic entwined.
I think she was a god... I never learned her name. She only left a note with two lines. “For wherever you need to go – and then some. The world needs more healers.” – Yrene, about Aelin.
Rise,” Darrow said, “Aelin Ashryver Whitethorn Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen.
The music broke her apart and put her back together, only to rend her asunder again and again.
A hand brushed my back. Then Rhys groaned, “If we’re all here, either things went very, very wrong or very right.” Cassian’s broken laugh cracked out of him.
Remind me to give you a salary raise.” I choked on a cough. “For what?” “For the sage counsel – and the other vital services you provide me.” He winked.
She should not remember what it was like to be free.
I will never stop being grateful to have you in my life, either, Feyre darling. And no matter what lies ahead” – a small, joyous smile at that – “we will face it together. Enjoy every moment of it together.
Fear no evil,” she whispered – just for me.
Embracing Sam was different, somehow. Like she wanted to curl into his warmth, like for one moment, she didn’t have to worry about anything or anybody.
The universe is massive. Some believe it has no end. Or that our universe might be one in a multitude, as bountiful as the stars in the sky or the sand on a beach.
Inside, inside I had become like that distant sea, relentlessly churning, tossed about by squalls that tore away any sense of where the surface might be.
We need hope as much as we need bread and meat,” he interrupted, his eyes clear for a rare moment. “We need hope, or else we cannot endure.