The Assassin and the Pirate Lord

“Perhaps if you hadn’t been reading all night, you wouldn’t be so exhausted,”

“If you’d been there, you

Celaena rested her head against the wooden wall, listening to the sound of his breathing as the long hours of the night stretched by.

When Arobynn summoned you, you didn’t keep him waiting.

Seated in the council room of the Assassin’s Keep

knew what his presence meant: a watchdog. Not that she’d do

Just so you know,” she said, speaking to all of them but still watching Sam, “I’m going to retrieve Ben’s body.” A muscle feathered in Sam’s jaw, though he wisely kept his eyes averted. “But don’t expect me to extend the same courtesy to the rest of you when your time comes.”

Skull’s Bay was on an island,

the archipelago of the Dead Islands.

they were already two hours behind schedule. Not when they were meeting in his office.