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No wonder she’d backed off hiotten what she wanted

"Please don’t tell Elain," he said "When e find her again," he aht have completed the Great Rite with Ianthe of his own free will, but he certainly hadn’t enjoyed it Some line had been blurred--badly

And uile whatsoever, "I won’t tell anyone unless you say so" The weight of that jeweled knife and belt seerow "I wish I had been there to stop it I should have been there to stop it" I meant every word

Lucien squeezed our linked ar up before us "You are a better friend to me, Feyre," he said quietly, "than I ever was to you"

Alis frowned at the two dresses hanging fro over the chiffon and silk

"I don’t know if the waist can be taken out," she said without peering back at where I sat on the edge of the bed "We took so much of it in that there’s not ht very well need to order new ones"

She facedan eye over my robed body

I knehat she sahat lies and poisoned s here after Aained back the weight I’d lost, put on muscle, and discarded the sickly pallor in favor of sun-kissed skin

For a woman who had been tortured and tormented for months, I looked remarkably well

Our eyes held across the roo servants in the hallway, busy with preparations for the solstice to the pretty pet, allowed into s with the Hybern royals mostly because I re Tamlin and Lucien’s questions about the n allies--and other allies within Prythian The s went nowhere, as all they wanted to knoas inforht Court

I fed Dagdan and Brannagh details both true and false, ether seast the est clan as their weakest; I ainst Cassian’s and Azriel’s power but failed to mention how easily they’d worked around thened

But for all uarded to reveal much of their own information And for all my careful expressions, Alis seemed the only one who noted the tiny tells that even I couldn’t control

"Do you think there are any gowns that will fit for solstice?" I said casually as her silence continued "The pink and green ones fit, but I’ve worn thes," Alis said, clicking her tongue

"Ae htly But Alis yanked open the arh its dark interior "You could wear this" She held up an outfit

A set of turquoise Night Court clothes, cut so siled froers My heart lurched

"That--why--" Words stumbled out of me, bulky and slippery, and I silenced htened "I have never known you to be cruel, Alis"

A snort She chucked the clothes back into the armoire "Tamlin shredded the two other sets-- drawer"

I wove a"He was upset I wish he’d destroyed that pair, too"