anongirl25
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He grips my chin in his fingers, tilting my head back to meet his eyes. "Why do you fear me, Nyx?"
I swallow. "Because you're the-"
"Don't finish that sentence." He warns.
"Don't interrupt me!" I snap back.
He grins at me, the insufferable one that I can't hardly stand. "Continue."
"You're cruel. You kill without warning. And you make your lust for me no secret."
He grins wickedly, leaning in and brushing his nose over the soft skin on my neck. Then he kisses the bruised, tender area of my throat where he bit me earlier. "Call it whatever you'd like, Nyx, but the correct word is 'obsessed.'"
When Nyx Astellan, renowned and revered assassin, is invited to participate in the Blood Bath, the competition that determines the next ruler of Valtara, she is certain that she will win.
Nyx quickly realizes that there are parts of her past that need to be unburied. To do so, she must work with the mysterious mentor she once loved.
But when the "Mad King" seeks to claim her as his own, despite him holding the competition that will cost him his crown, she realizes that even she, as skilled as she is, may not survive this competition for the throne.