“I’ll love you until all the other dragons are gone and the world is as it was, with billions of humans and hidden elves and houses and cities, and it’s just you and me, wondering when we got old. “You already do that,” Eroan said, but smiling again. I love you now, I loved you yesterday, and I’ll love you a hundred years from now, until you’re as old as that ancient Order elf in Ashford and I’m so old I’ll frighten all the little elflings with inappropriate war stories.” I’m not going anywhere, because I have everything I need right here. I don’t need a dragon, I’m all-dragon with you. There's poison in the Caville court, and if Nikolas doesn't discover the real reason Prince Vasili tried to buy him with a bag of coin, the palace, the city, and everything he loves, will be lost forever.“Eroan Ilanea, you’re my everything. The king is on his deathbed, the ferocious elves are creeping closer to the great city of Loreen, and madness stalks the hallways.

But there's more wrong in the palace than just the prince. If Nikolas doesn't submit to Prince Vasili and discover who is plotting against him, Julian will suffer. Nikolas would kill the prince himself if not for one thing: Julian, the prince's personal guard and Niko's light in the dark. Malicious and cruel, the prince is more viper than man, and someone inside the palace wants him dead. Prince Vasili is the worst Caville of all. Whipped for his insolence, Nikolas is also forced into slavery in a palace full of vicious, brutal royals.

He said the same to the prince who tried to buy his loyalty, and learned that the Caville princes don't take no for an answer. 'Your love is worthless, it's your hate I need.' Prince Vasili Caville When King Talos Caville surrendered the war to the elves, soldier Nikolas Yazdan vowed never to serve the royals again.

King of the Dark by Ariana Nash