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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 by Chocolex122
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
13 Oct 2021
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Summary
“The problem with wanting,” he began his lips just a whisper away from her own, “Is that it makes us weak.”
She smiled then, her words curling around them like smoke, “The problem with wanting, my dear, Aleksander,” she whispered caressing his cheek, “Is that it makes us ambitious, and that becomes a problem for everyone else.”
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The problem with wanting, Alina Starkova had noted, was that it bloomed ambition and for as long as she had been alive all Alina did was want. When she finally gets a hold of the power she needed, nothing and no one would stop her ambitions in their tracks. She was tired of wanting, now it was time for taking.