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1. don't leave
Alina doesn't look back as she marches onward. Good, he lies to himself. Let her leave. Let her go.
He doesn't want that. He wants her safe by his side. She doesn't see things the way Aleksander has seen them, and that's why she leaves.
Time will tell her the lesson he's trying speak.
10. righteous
There is something on the way he moves: back straight, head up, eyes defiant. Alina finds it fascinating, sketches it in the margins of a notebook.
All her drawings look nothing like the Darkling, and Alina tells herself that's why she keeps looking: so she'll know how to better capture the way he is.
47. crave
His mouth is a taste Nikolai never tires of: he tastes like the sweets they shared, like condensed darkness, like Nikolai. It is a forbidden taste, one he does not indulge often, but one he craves every waking second where his skin is not touching Aleksander's.