I looked into Mal's eyes-his familiar blue eyes that I knew even better than my own. Except they weren't blue. In the dying lamplight, they glimmered quartz gray. He smiled then, a cold, clever smile like none I'd ever seen on his lips. "I missed you too, Alina." Instead of responding with fear, Alina responds with anger. A different take on the scene where the Darkling comes to her. *warning for adult content!
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