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101 " —Y las montañas pueden levantarse y caer, el sol puede marchitarse, el mar reclamar la tierra y tragar el cielo. Pero siempre serás mía. Y las estrellas podrán caer de los cielos, la noche podrá cubrir la tierra, pero hasta que la oscuridad muera, siempre seré tuyo. "
― Laura Thalassa , Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1)
102 " Me mira como si fuera una deidad arcaica a la que adora. "
103 " It’s not like I want this!” For my mind to suck me back into the worst parts of my past. To feel dirty and tainted and unlovable. "
104 " A kiss to end all kisses. Love is another sort of subtle magic. It can bring people together and tear lives apart. It can wash away sorrow, it can forgive. It can redeem. "
105 " This is one of those moments when I have to recognize that fairies are very different from humans. Their anger is bigger and more ferocious than anything a human can conjure. And they’re so much quicker to snap. "
106 " Sometimes knowing is just another kind of hell. "
107 " Let our enemies come, and I will kill them all. So long as you’re at my side, cherub, I have something to fight for. "
108 " I lean in and brush a kiss along his lips. “I’ll be at your side,” I promise, “till darkness dies. "
109 " La expresión en su cara es tan familiar; lo he visto en la mía mil veces. La expresión de un extraño. "
110 " Bitch, just give it to me straight: are you bobbing for this guy’s bananas? Is that what this is about?” she asks. “No—no, it’s not like that. This is strictly professional. "
111 " Des is no longer just my saviour, he's also my vigilant. And I have to come to terms with the fact the man who let me cry in his arms is also the Bargainer, a wanted criminal known not just for his deals, but also his immense cruelty - the same cruelty the fae are infamous for.And Lord save me, I am just fine with that. "
112 " I wonder if any of them were like me—whether their beauty made them victims long before it gave them power. "
113 " Des and I are quiet as we leave the servants’ quarters. Next to me, the Bargainer looks grim. Bloodsucking children, phantom visitors, and a man who goes by the name of the Thief of Souls. It’s enough to give me nightmares. "
114 " And then I begin to sing. “Twinkle, twinkle, little star …”So sue me for not being inventive. "
115 " I catch up to his side. “That was insanity back there,” I say, because I can’t think of anything better.“That was hellacious,” he says, “and I’m used to events like this. Thank fuck I never went to high school.” That gets him a look or two from people who’ve overheard us.“You never went to high school?” I ask as we weave between couples. I don’t know why I’m surprised; nothing about Des seems particularly normal.But still.“My upbringing was a little more unconventional.”Because Des is a king of the Otherworld. A king.I took a fae king to my supernatural prom.Jesus. All I need is the Monster Mash playing in the background to round this out. "
116 " He presses his lips close to my ear. “Do you want to know a truth of mine?” “Always,” I say, turning my head to better face him. He takes my hand and presses it against his chest. Beneath my palm I feel his heartbeat racing. My eyes move from his chest to his face. “It does that whenever I’m around you,” he says. "
117 " Fine,” he rasps. “I’ll help you at”—more teeth gnashing and another raking gaze which pauses on the tear on my cheek—“no cost.” He practically chokes on the words. "
118 " Shit, you did. Bitch, you must have a vagina of gold. "
119 " Holy shit,” I finally say. I clear my throat. “Um, no, we didn’t have angry animal sex; no, Eli didn’t turn me; and good lord woman, please don’t make my ex into a coat. He didn’t hurt me. "
120 " I look at my beads and remember the Bargainer’s warnings. Anything I want, you would have to give to me. Tell me, cherub, could you give me anything I wanted? … Could you give your body to me? "