2_-_court_of_mist_and_fury_a_-_sarah_j._maas

what he’d done after— “I think we can agree that I owe you nothing, and you owe me
nothing.”
His gaze was unflinching.
I blazed on, “Isn’t it enough that we’re all free?” I splayed my tattooed hand on the
table. “By the end, I thought you were different, thought that it was all a mask, but taking
me away, keeping me here … ” I shook my head, unable to find the words vicious enough,
clever enough to convince him to end this bargain.
His eyes darkened. “I’m not your enemy, Feyre.”
“Tamlin says you are.” I curled the fingers of my tattooed hand into a fist. “Everyone
else says you are.”
“And what do you think?” He leaned back in his chair again, but his face was grave.
“You’re doing a damned good job of making me agree with them.”
“Liar,” he purred. “Did you even tell your friends about what I did to you Under the
Mountain?”
So that comment at breakfast had gotten under his skin. “I don’t want to talk about
anything related to that. With you or them.”
“No, because it’s so much easier to pretend it never happened and let them coddle you.”
“I don’t let them coddle me—”
“They had you wrapped up like a present yesterday. Like you were his reward.”
“So?”
“So?” A flicker of rage, then it was gone.
“I’m ready to be taken home,” I merely said.
“Where you’ll be cloistered for the rest of your life, especially once you start punching
out heirs. I can’t wait to see what Ianthe does when she gets her hands on them.”
“You don’t seem to have a particularly high opinion of her.”
Something cold and predatory crept into his eyes. “No, I can’t say that I do.” He pointed
to a blank piece of paper. “Start copying the alphabet. Until your letters are perfect. And
every time you get through a round, lower and raise your shield. Until that is second
nature. I’ll be back in an hour.”
“What?”
“Copy. The. Alphabet. Until—”
“I heard what you said.” Prick. Prick, prick, prick.
“Then get to work.” Rhys uncoiled to his feet. “And at least have the decency to only
call me a prick when your shields are back up.”
He vanished into a ripple of darkness before I realized that I’d let the wall of adamant