“Oraya of the Nightborn,' he murmured. 'I give you my body. I give you my blood. I give you my soul. I give you my heart. From this night until the end of nights. From daybreak until our days are broken. Your soul is my soul. Your heart is my heart. Your pain is my pain. I bind myself to you.”
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“I'm not marrying you,' I spat.
'Yes, you are.'
'Fuck you. I am not.'
A muscle feathered in his cheek.
'It's the only way I can keep you alive. If you're not my wife, you're my enemy. And I can't justify letting you go.”
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“Think about this. Power is a bloody business. You know that as well as I do. We have teeth, you and I. Now is the time to use them. We'll rip apart the worlds that subjugated both of us, and from the ashes we'll build something new. And there is no one I would rather have beside me to do that with than you, Oraya. No one.' His voice lowered to a plea. His gaze dipped- to my mouth- before flicking back to my eyes. 'And when I leave this room, and come back with a priestess, you will marry me. You will do it because I can't kill you. I tried. I can't. A world without you would be a dark, depressing place. And I've already inflicted enough pain without committing that fucking injustice, too. So let me save you.”
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“Never make deathbed promises, Oraya. Always bites you in the ass.”
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“The lone human and the mangled vampire,' he murmured. 'The others should be trembling in pure fucking terror.”
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“I'm coming for you, Oraya.”
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“You were fucking magnificent, Oraya,' he murmured. 'I hope you know that.”
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“I've lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
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“We'll probably die tomorrow,' I said. 'Show me something worth living for.”
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“If we fight, we fight to the end. Whatever end that might be Whoever's blood needs to spill to win it.”
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