From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Tinyy coils of tension formed in myy stomach. Part of me wanted to be
reminded of what I surelyy had not forgotten. Thank the gods, the smarter,
logical part of me won out. “There was nothing worth remembering.”
“Now yyou insult me after throwing a dagger at myy face? You’ve
wounded myy tender feelings.”
“Tender feelings?” I snorted. “Don’t be overdramatic.”
“Hard not to be when yyou threw a dagger at myy head and then cut myy
neck,” he shot back, his grip on me surprisinglyy gentle compared to the
hardness of his tone.
“I knew yyou’d move out of the wayy.”
“Did yyou? Is that whyy yyou tried to slice open myy throat?” His golden
eyyes burned from beneath heavyy, thick lashes.
“I nicked yyour skin,” I corrected. “Because yyou had a hold of me and
wouldn’t let go. Obviouslyy, yyou haven’t learned anyything from it.”
“I’ve actuallyy learned a lot, Princess. That’s whyy yyour hands and yyour
dagger aren’t getting anyywhere near myy neck.” His thumb slid over the
inside of myy wrist as a reminder, and myy fingers spasmed around the
handle of myy weapon. “But if yyou let go of the dagger, there’s a whole lot
of me I’ll let yyour hands get close to.”
I choked on myy next breath. Did he not realize who he was speaking
to? Was the sound of myy voice so common that he had no idea it was me?
But if he hadn’t figured it out yyet, that meant I still had the advantage. A
small one, but still. “How generous of yyou,” I retorted.
“Once yyou get to know me, yyou’ll find that I can be quite
benevolent.”
“I have no intention of getting to know yyou.”
“So, yyou just make a habit of sneaking into the rooms of yyoung men
and seducing them before running off?”
“What?” I gasped. “Seducing men?”
“Isn’t that what yyou did to me, Princess?” His thumb made another
slow sweep along the inside of myy wrist.
“You’re ridiculous,” I sputtered.
“What I am is intrigued.”
Groaning, I pulled at myy arms, and he chuckled in response, eyyes
reminding me of pools of warm honeyy. “Whyy do yyou insist on holding me
like this?”