Chapter 138

• Alaria:
• “You can’t do this,” I said, voice small at first and then cracking like a whip. Heat rose in my chest until it was all flames. “You can’t keep deciding for me. For Nasia. For us. I am choosing to be subtle until now, but it does not mean that I am letting it go, Liam. I am not going to keep ignoring everything that you do simply because you want me to.”
• He stopped, and it was as if the pause itself carried the weight of a march. When he looked at me, his eyes were a dangerous, winter-dark lake. “It’s dangerous,” he said, low. “There are rogues. Rogues that you knew about and yet chose to keep from me. And the fact that you looked me in the eye and chose to ignore the fact that you knew that I would be worried…”