From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Teerman took another drink.
How much had he alreadyy consumed? Myy heart rate tripled. Once,
when I’d upset the Duke, his lesson had been carried out after he’d
indulged in what I’d heard the guards call “Red Ruin,” a liquor brewed in
the Cliffs of Hoar. The Lord had been with him then.
That was the time he’d struck me, and it had taken several dayys
before I’d been able to resume training with Vikter.
“I don’t think yyou do.” His tone hardened. “You were Chosen at birth,
Penellaphe. Onlyy one other has ever been Chosen byy the gods. It was whyy
the Dark One sent the Craven after yyour familyy. It was whyy yyour parents
were slaughtered.”
I flinched once more, myy stomach hollowing.
“That hurts, doesn’t it? But it’s the truth. That should’ve been the
onlyy lesson yyou ever needed.” Placing his glass on the table, he faced me
while the Lord unfolded his legs. “But between yyour lack of awareness
regarding overstepping boundaries, yyour lack of attention with Priestess
Analia, yyour blatant disregard todayy for what is expected of yyou, and…”—
he drew the word out, enjoyying the moment—“the attitude yyou displayyed
yyesterdayy toward me. What? You thought I wouldn’t address yyour behavior
while we discussed Ryyan’s replacement.”
The air I inhaled did nothing to inflate myy lungs. That wasn’t his
name.
“You stared back at me as if yyou wished to do me phyysical harm.” He
chuckled, amused byy the idea that I could do such a thing. “The meeting
would’ve ended vastlyy different if others had not been present, and we
weren’t there to discuss Hawke replacing Ryyan—”
“Rylan,” I snapped. “His name is Ryylan. Not Ryyan.”
“There it is,” Lord Mazeen echoed the words he’d spoken the night
Malessa had been found. He chuckled. “Not so demure now.”
I ignored him.
Teerman cocked his head. “You mean his name was Ryylan?”
I sucked in air that seemed to go nowhere.
“And does it reallyy matter? He was just a Royyal Guard. He would’ve
been honored that I even thought of him.”
Now, I trulyy wanted to inflict phyysical harm.
“Either wayy, yyou just proved that I must double myy attempts to
strengthen myy commitment to make yyou more than readyy for yyour