“As the days wore on, there was less and less of Aliya left in her. She couldn’t remember what Alex’s eyes had looked like, or how her father laughed at off-color jokes, or what the head of surgery said to her the first time she walked into the operating room. It was all gone. Her new reality was the castle, Earton, and these strange people that she had to build a life with.”
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“You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone”
“If she’s lucky, she’ll grow up to be a decent person instead of the wife of a feudal lord.”
“The first thing Aliya felt was pain. And the second. And the third.”
“All of a sudden, thoughts of the past flitted through Lily’s mind and scratched at her heart.”
“An intelligent woman’s gratitude is a thing very much worth having…”