Bound By Blood Anthology Quotes

Words combine with ever-widening blood puddles spilled from the suffocating death wounds.

I stared into my brother’s eyes. “Don’t act all high and mighty, Luca. You’ve had your fair share of fuck-ups. I, at least, never cheated on my wife.

It’s not only my decision. This is your child too.” Something flickered in Matteo’s eyes. “It is. But it is your body. You’ll have to carry a child for nine months, you’ll have to go through labor, and you’ll be the one the baby will need the most in the beginning, so really it should be your choice.

How about we move the party into the dining room so pregnant lady can get something to eat. She almost got me to pull into an Arby’s drive-in on the way here because she was about to eat my arm,” Matteo said with a grin. I tried to punch his shoulder but my movements were slow and he was as agile as ever. “You’re dead,” I mouthed. But he only sent me a kiss.

Two hours later I was dressed in tight black jeans and a sparkling crop top with the words “Sparkly Bitch” across the chest.

Enjoy the sight before my vagina gets shredded by child birth.” Matteo burst out laughing. “Fuck Gianna, what kind of dirty talk is that?

Because I will hold those moments with me forever, little witch. I cannot bring myself to regret any moment that I spent with you. Even when you were pulling an arrow out from my shoulder. Because it meant you were close to me. And only in those moments did I feel like I could finally breathe.” My lips parted. “I know you have no reason to trust me,” he continued. “I have given you none. But I would give you my blood oath right here and now if it meant erasing any doubt in your mind about the way I feel about you.” My mind raced. A blood oath? He would be forever bound to it. Just like the one he’d made to the Below King, like the one I’d made to the Healers’ Guild. “I regret that I hurt you. For the rest of my life, I will regret that,” he said. “But I do not know if I have the will to say goodbye to you, Marion. Every moment away from you has been agony. Every moment in the Below has felt like a lifetime. It will break my soul if I have to say goodbye to you…but if that’s truly what you want, I will respect that. I swear it to you.

At first glance, The Town seemed like every other. Its suburban landscape, however, had become infected. Below sharpened blades of green grass that bent under the weight of heavy raindrops, worms wriggled and dug through damp soil, establishing intricate systems of rot; intertwining the roots of tall-standing trees and invading overgrown weeds, harboring all the people’s secrets, filling with blood and pulsating such as the empty womb of a woman overcome by a withering sickness. And unknown to the stranger who slept under a heavy blanket of ash and liquor, but this sickness had also nestled itself —as real and consuming as her organs—within the girl who wandered the streets of the Town. Flickering yellow lights shining through bounds of thick white locks, she could feel it inside her, sliding into her belly, residing alongside the trauma that coated her tongue like honey; sweet as ripe tangerines but bitter against the back of her throat like coffee grounds.

My fucking fingers still hadn’t stopped shaking. Aria pushed my hands away and unbuttoned my shirt for me. “Luca, your wife is undressing me.