KOA spoilers‼️:
«"How you could come to love a monster." "Why?" He pushed into her space. She didn't balk one step. Indeed, her eyes were blazing as she hissed, "Because it will help me understand how I did the same."
…"The only thing that I am jealous of, Lorcan, is that she is rid of you."
Lorcan hated that the words landed like a blow. That he had no detenses left where she was concerned. "I'm sorry," he said. "For all of it, Elide." There, he'd said it, and laid it out before her. "I'm sorry," he repeated But Elide's face did not warm. "I don't care," she said, turning on her heel. "And I don't care if you walk off that battlefield tomorrow."» Elide & Lorcan.
«"I have been degraded and humiliated in so many ways, for so many years," she said, voice shaking. Not from fear, but from the tidal wave that swept up everything inside her, burning alongside the wound in her leg. "But I have never felt as humiliated as I did when you threw me into the snow. When you called me a lying bitch in front of our friends and allies. Never." She hated the angry tears that stung her eyes. "I was once forced to crawl before men. And gods above, I nearly crawled for you these months. And yet it takes me nearly dying for you to realize that you've been an ass? It takes me nearly dying for you to see me as human again?"
"I wanted it to be you," she said. "After Wesley, after all of it, I wanted it to be you. What Aelin asked me to do had no bearing on that. What she asked me to do never felt like a burden, because I wanted it to be you in the end anyway." She didn't wipe away the tears that shipped down her cheeks. "And you threw me into the snow." Aedion slid to his knees. Reached for her hand. "I will never stop regretting it. Lysandra, I will never forget a second of it, never stop hating myself for it. And I am so—"
"Don't." She snatched back her hand. "Don't kneel. Don't bother." She pointed to the tent flaps. "There's nothing I have left to say to you. Or you to me." »Lysandra & Aedion.
As much as i love Both males, the women devoured with those lines!!!
(I’m sorry for that one mutual for saying this, but) Aedion deserved it more than Lorcan!! I know he lost his cousin, and he’s fighting a battle and then if/when they win he’s going to have to sire children that will pose as Aelin’s but, he just kept making a mistake after another! I was done when he told her to leave his tent while it was snowing and she was naked!!!
Meanwhile, Lorcan only called Maeve because he thought that was the only way to protect Elide, and he swore the blood oath to Aelin just for her, and the small possibility that she will forgive him one day!