Chapter no 81
CHAPTER 81 Rhysand Even from the kitchen, I could hear all of them. The lapping of what was surely the oldest bottle of liquor I owned, then the clink of those equally ancient crystal glasses against each other. Then the laughter. The deep rumble—that was Azriel. Laughing at whatever Mor had said that prompted her […]
Chapter no 80
CHAPTER 80 A world divided was not a world that could thrive. That first meeting went on for hours, many of us short-tempered with exhaustion, but … channels were made. Stories were exchanged. Tales narrated of either side of the wall. I told them my story. All of it. I told it to the strangers […]
Chapter no 79
CHAPTER 79 Miryam’s smiling face was more human than High Fae. But Miryam, I remembered as she and Drakon rose to their feet to greet me, was only half Fae. She bore the delicately pointed ears, but … there was something still human about her. In that broad smile that lit up her brown eyes. […]
Chapter no 78
CHAPTER 78 Amongst the sprawling field of corpses and wounded, there was one body I wanted to bury. Only Nesta, Elain, and I returned to that clearing, once Azriel had given the all-clear that the battle was well and truly over. Letting Rhys out of my sight to wrangle our scattered armies, sort through the […]
Chapter no 66
CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX VIOLET “Violet!” Brennan shouts, racing down the steps of Riorson House and into the moonlit courtyard. Sounds of celebration stream through the open doors. I groggily rise to my feet beside Imogen, and a shape moves in the shadows to the right. “I will not let them burn you,” Andarna vows. “What?” My […]
Chapter no 77
CHAPTER 77 I had only silence in my head. Only silence, as I began screaming. Screaming and screaming and screaming. The emptiness in my chest, my soul at the lack of that bond, that life— I was shaking him, screaming his name and shaking him, and my body stopped being my body and just became […]
Chapter no 65
CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE XADEN It was one thing to beckon me, call me, summon me to this hidden, sun- soaked canyon south of Draithus against my will, to drag me from the walls of our defenses and force me to walk away from my friends and a city full of civilians. It is wholly another to […]
Chapter no 76
CHAPTER 76 Tears slid down Varian’s blood-flecked skin as we watched that spot on the sea where Amren had vanished. Below, beyond, our forces were beginning to cry out with victory—with joy. Up on the rock … utter quiet. I looked at last toward the broken thirds of the Cauldron. Perhaps I had done it. […]
Chapter no 64
CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR VIOLET Iswear the tornado slows as Tairn battles the wind at the eastern edge of the field, flying for the mountainside ahead of us. “It is slowing,” Tairn agrees. “She used it to get us here.” Theophanie’s holding it like a nocked arrow, waiting for our arrival. Trees are uprooted a mile to […]
Chapter no 75
CHAPTER 75 The Cauldron purred in Elain’s presence as the King of Hybern slumped to his knees, clawing at the knife jutting through his throat. Elain backed away a step. Choking, blood dribbling from his lips, the king gaped at Nesta. My sister lunged to her feet. Not to go to Elain. But to the […]