Chapter no 53
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE If the irids fired the wardstone as the seventh breed, then Aretia is safe. Most of Tyrrendor is. It’s too surreal, too easy. Emotions beyond names hit me from every side, but fear replaces them all when Feirge swings her body to confront the irid, lowering her head and baring her teeth. “No!” […]
Chapter no 64
CHAPTER 64 Nesta sat with her head in her hands inside my tent. She did not speak, did not move. Coiled in on herself, clinging to stay whole—that’s how she looked. How I felt. Elain—taken to Hybern’s army. Nesta had stolen something vital from the Cauldron. And in those moments Nesta had hunted it down […]
Chapter no 52
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO “Tairn!” I scream, and my mouth floods with the bitterness of newfound terror. “No!” Andarna yells. We skid to a halt in the prairie grass, and I lift my head just in time to see Feirge fly after Theophanie’s wyvern, who’s taken to the sky. Dunne, no. As strong as Rhi is, even […]
Chapter no 63
CHAPTER 63 None of us lasted long after dinner. Amren and Varian didn’t even bother to join us. No, she’d just wrapped her legs around his waist, right there in front of us, and he’d stood, lifting her in one swift movement. I wasn’t entirely sure how Varian managed to walk them out of the […]
Chapter no 51
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE “How many?” I ask Tairn as we race down the steps. Doors open on every floor we pass, and people pour out of their rooms, most still tugging on their uniforms. Only a small percentage are in black. “A few dozen. Hard to tell with the weather. Twenty minutes out, maybe less. I’m […]
Chapter no 62
CHAPTER 62 I couldn’t bring myself to smile at Amren. I could barely keep my chin high. She peered behind me, as if she could see the path I’d taken from Mor’s tent, smell the fight on me. “Be careful,” Amren warned as I fell into step beside her, heading for our tent again, “of […]
Chapter no 50
CHAPTER FIFTY Spring-green meadow grass bends under my boots as the first drops of rain fall. I shouldn’t be here. I know what happens here. And yet, this is where I’m called time and again. This is the price of saving her life. Lightning splinters the sky, illuminating the high walls of Draithus and […]
Chapter no 61
CHAPTER 61 Helion winnowed me into the camp. Right into Rhys’s war-tent. My mate was pale. Blood-splattered and filthy, from his skin to his armor to his hair. I opened my mouth—to ask how the battle had gone, to say what had happened, I don’t know. But Rhys just reached for me, folding me into […]
Chapter no 49
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE Our mouths collide and we ignite. There’s no more teasing. No more doubt. His tongue sweeps past my lips with arrogant ownership and I moan, sliding my fingers into his hair to hold him to me. He takes my mouth over and over in deep, drugging kisses that have me arching for more […]
Chapter no 60
CHAPTER 60 I gripped the door handle as I passed the threshold, digging in my heels and throwing every scrap of strength into my arms to keep that door from shutting. From locking me in. Invisible hands shoved against it, but I gritted my teeth and braced a foot against the wall, iron biting into […]