Chapter 13
CHAPTER 13 The spider spoke true. Keeping hidden amongst the ice-crusted rocks of a jagged mountain peak, Manon and the Thirteen peered down into the small pass. At the camp of red-cloaked witches, the location confirmed by the Shadows just an hour ago. Manon glanced over her shoulder, to where Dorian was nearly invisible against […]
Chapter no 17
Brandon’s hands and feet moved like they were on autopilot as he and Richard made their way down the stairs. All Brandon could think about was what had just happened up on the 90th floor. Those people trapped in the elevator. When he’d turned around, they’d just been … gone. And that poor woman, burned […]
Chapter 12
CHAPTER 12 Everything. She had given everything for this, and had been glad to do it. Aelin lay in darkness, the slab of iron like a starless night overhead. She’d awoken in here. Had been in here for … a long time. Long enough she’d relieved herself. Hadn’t cared. Perhaps it had all been for […]
Chapter no 16
“Give that back!” Pasoon cried, and he lunged for his plastic airplane. Reshmina was too fast for him. She held it above her head and twisted away when Pasoon made another grab for it. “Give it to me!” Pasoon commanded. “You’re just a girl! You have to do what I tell you!” “I’m not a […]
Chapter 11
CHAPTER 11 “You’re sure of this?” His heart pounding, Chaol braced a hand on the desk in the quarters he shared with Yrene and pointed to the map that Nesryn and Sartaq had spread before them. “The soldiers we questioned had been given orders on where to rendezvous,” Sartaq said from the other side of […]
Chapter no 15
Brandon and Richard came out of the stairwell cautiously, tentatively, scanning the 91st floor. They had seen fire through the walls just above them, but there was no fire here. Not yet. There were no people either. They went through every office they could get to through the rubble and debris: a shipping company, two […]
Chapter 10
CHAPTER 10 The world had become only freezing mud, and red and black blood, and the screams of the dying rising to the frigid sky. Lysandra had learned these months that battle was no orderly, neat thing. It was chaos and pain and there were no grand, heroic duels. Only the slashing of her claws […]
Chapter no 14
Pasoon’s grip on Reshmina slipped, and she fell a few centimeters before he caught her again. The American helicopter kept hovering right behind her—WHOMP- WHOMP-WHOMP-WHOMP. Reshmina knew that with just one squeeze of the pilot’s trigger finger, bullets would tear through her and her brother. Everything she had cared about, everything she had worked for […]
Chapter 9
CHAPTER 9 Cairn tied her to the altar and left her. Fenrys didn’t enter until long after she’d awoken. The blood was still leaking from where Cairn had also left the glass in her legs, her feet. It was not a wolf who slipped into the stone chamber, but a male. Each of Fenrys’s steps […]
Chapter no 13
“Hey,” said Brandon’s rescuer. “You’re that kid from the escalator this morning!” Yes! That’s where Brandon had seen him before. The bald Black man with the beard who had almost spilled his coffee all over Brandon and his dad. It seemed like forever ago, but it couldn’t have been more than an hour. “Looks like […]