Tahereh Mafi

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Shatter Me comes All This Twisted Glory, the highly anticipated third novel in the Persian inspired mythology This Woven Kingdom series

All This Twisted Glory

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“I’m not implying it, Kamran. I’m delivering the statement to you directly.”

God, he’d wanted her. He’d wanted her with an all-consuming thirst, with the desperation of a man waiting to die.

Fate, he thought bitterly, was only romantic when one was destined to be the hero.

“Never think of me again,” the man said raggedly, the last dregs of energy leaving his body. “Imagine me dead and gone, child. This debt is not yours to bear.”

“How can you say that,” came Cyrus’s quiet reply, “when it was you who asked me to bear it?”

There was no one she felt safer with, and she’d done nothing to deserve his kindness. He’d simply put his faith in her.

He tried to hide a flare of panic as he studied the unnatural curl of her limbs on the ground—but she knew the moment he discerned the bruise on her face, for his eyes widened with undisguised alarm and he all but ran to her, now bolting down the narrow path at a dangerous speed.

Cyrus couldn’t die. Not now. Not yet. Heavens, she thought. Not ever.

He’d been afraid to go near her; he hadn’t been ready to hear her voice, to look into her eyes. He was terrified she’d go and do something brutal, like smile at him.

“Why? Because you’re terribly handsome?”

“Don’t be funny,” he said, breathing hard. “This isn’t funny.”

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“Cyrus,” said Alizeh suddenly, half gasping the word. “Where are you?”

“I’m here,” he said roughly. “I’m right here.”

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