Marie Lu

Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools.

They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again.

I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.

I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone," the man said with a shrug.

The darkness seeps in a little more every day. What have I done? How can I be like this?

I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a que

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

I can taste the good-bye on his lips.

All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.

He doesn't know who I am.

Maybe his nightmare had been about me.

He's right. I can't deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.

Trusting me,_ Teren murmurs, __s a dangerous game, mi Adelinetta._____ doing more than that,_ I reply. __or the rest of this journey, you will be my personal guard.__t that, Teren__ eyes flare with surprise and anger. ____ not your lackey, Your Majesty.___nd I__ not Giulietta,_ I fire back.

Make no mistake__e don__ trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.

One heroic act doesn__ make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?