““He gripped the back of the sofa as though physically restraining himself. "You're a liar. You've always been a liar. And today was no exception. You had a sword over his head." "I did," she spat. "And before Faliq arrived to wreck everything, I was going to do it. I should have done it, as anyone with common sense would have, because Dorian is gone." And there was her breaking heart, fracturing at the monster she'd seen living in Dorian's eyes, the demon that would hunt her and Aedion down, that would stalk her dreams.””
