Chapter 28
CHAPTER 28 Aelin ran. Her weakened legs stumbled on the grass, her still-bound hands restricting the full range of motion, but she ran. Picked a direction, any direction but the river mists to her left, and ran. The sun was rising, and the army camp … There was motion behind her. Shouting. She blocked it […]
Chapter no 32
Reshmina woke to the sound of singing. We are Afghan people We are Afghans of the mountains It was pitch-black and Reshmina couldn’t see, but she would know the sound of her grandmother’s voice anywhere. The song she was singing, “Momardene Afghane,” was one of Anaa’s favorites. Ears ringing, dust clogging her mouth and throat, […]
Chapter 27
CHAPTER 27 Wolf and Fae went tumbling to the carpet, roaring and tearing. Fenrys lunged for Cairn’s throat, his enormous body pinning the male, but Cairn got his feet between them and kicked. Aelin lurched upright, willing strength to her legs as she came into a kneel beside the chest of drawers. Fenrys slammed into […]
Chapter no 31
Brandon’s eyes fluttered open, but he couldn’t see a thing. He was lying on his side in three inches of water, arms and legs splayed out and pieces of metal and wood on top of him. The darkness pressed in on him, like he’d been holding his breath in a pool for too long and […]
Chapter 26
CHAPTER 26 Aelin swallowed once. Twice. The portrait of uncertain fear as she lay chained on the metal table, Cairn waiting for her answer. And then she said, her voice cracking, “When you finish breaking me apart for the day, how does it feel to know that you are still nothing?” Cairn grinned. “Some fire […]
Chapter no 30
It was cool and damp and dark inside the cave, and eerily quiet. Reshmina could still hear the pops and booms of guns above, but they were muted here. Muffled by the meters of rock that Reshmina hoped would keep them safe until the battle was over. Reshmina took a step forward and banged her […]
Chapter 25
CHAPTER 25 Cairn had let her rot in the box for a while. It was quieter here, no endless, droning roar of the river. Nothing but that pressure, building and building and building under her skin, in her head. She could not outrun it, even in oblivion. But still the irons dug in, chafing against […]
Chapter no 29
Sprinklers rained down from the ceiling of the underground mall, and in seconds Brandon was soaked through to the skin. He squinted, trying to see in the rain and the darkness. There were burn marks around the blown-out elevator doors by the stairs, as though giant balls of flame had blasted down all the way […]
Chapter 24
CHAPTER 24 The Crochans ignored her. And ignored the Thirteen. A few hissed insults as they passed, but one glance from Manon and the Thirteen kept their fists balled at their sides. The Crochans remained in the camp for a week to tend to their wounded, and so Manon and the Thirteen had remained as […]
Chapter no 28
Reshmina stood still, staring at the place where her house had been. People from her village flowed around her like water around a rock in the river. She couldn’t even see over their heads anymore, but she could see the black-and-gray plume of smoke as it rose into the air. Her house. The place where […]