mischa dragomir

camila mendes

we can't always have what we want, princess.

you think i don't know that? you think i don't wake up wanting my family back? that i don't want life to be easier for my sister? i know good and well i can't always have what i want.

so, you understand why we can't continue on like this.

is that what you want?

dimitri belikov

kieron moore

i would die for you—

yes, i know, as you keep reminding me. it's your duty to protect me. you don't have to keep saying it.

no, not because it is my duty. i would die for you and could even be happy about it simply because it was for you.

vasilisa dragomir

daniela nieves

this doesn't make sense. you're the older one. you're supposed to do all this — supposed to be the next queen.

i suppose the queen saw something in you. something i don't have.

what, an inability to specialize? crippling anxiety? she should've picked you.

i think i'd rather go up against rose's mother in a fight, if we're being honest.

rose hathaway

sisi stringer

you're not a dhampir. stop acting like one.

but i'm just as good as — at least, I could be if you took a chance on me.

you don't want the life i have, mish. i don't even want the life i have.

but i don't know that i want the one planned for me either — it's all been planned since the moment my family died.

okay. we have to keep this on the down-low though. dimitri would kill me if he found out.

dimitri won't care — he's made it very clear that he doesn't care.

christian ozera

andré dae kim

vampires like you are unheard of, it seems. at least there are rare accounts of spirit being used to help your sister learn.

it's not that big of a deal anyway.

yeah, right. the queen almost shit herself at your specialization ceremony. it's a good thing it wasn't televised like lissa's.

victor dashkov

j. august richards

they say we're running out of dhampir for protection. i think the solution is simple — let me protect myself instead of parading around court and kissing asses.

this is what you're meant to do. you're a royal — half of the last of the dragomir line.

barely. and i could be so much more.

just keep your head down until they stop talking about your specialization, mish.

mikhail tanner

max parker

be careful, mish.

not that anything has actually happened, but you can't tell me to be careful as if you're not doing the exact same thing with sonya. what's so wrong with me having feelings for a dhampir?

for starters, sonya isn't a princess, and i'm not the second-best guardian in the dominion. i'm also not her guardian.

dimitri isn't my guardian — you are.

oh, come off it. we all know if rose can stop fucking things up, she'll be lissa's guardian, and dimitri will replace me as yours.

i wouldn't have so much faith in rose not fucking things up.