Chapter no 33
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE The plaza falls silent, but at least there are no flames erupting from the three dragons behind me, two of whom I know are pissed. Xaden tenses, and our squadmates quickly form a line on my other side. “You can’t be serious.” I shake my head at the Queen of Unnbriel’s ludicrous suggestion. […]
Chapter no 44
CHAPTER 44 Absolute silence. Absolute stillness. I felt the tremor of magic slide through the room as shield after shield locked into place around each High Lord and his retinue. The one Rhysand had already snapped around us, now reinforcing … Rage laced its essence. Wrath and rage. Even if my mate’s face was bored—lazy. […]
Chapter no 32
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Blood trickles down the top of my left forearm to drip from my fingertips. I’ll have a scar to match the one Tynan gave me during Threshing. I grit my teeth through the burn of pain and look up. “She faces Marlis!” the priestess shouts, and the soldiers behind us cheer. Xaden […]
Chapter no 43
CHAPTER 43 The chamber was and was not what I expected. Deep-cushioned oak chairs had been arranged in a massive circle in the heart of the room—enough for all the High Lords and their delegates. Some, I realized, had been shaped to accommodate wings. It seemed it was not unusual. For clustered around a beautiful, […]
Chapter no 31
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE “Are you dizzy?” Xaden asks in a low whisper. “No.” My gaze jumping from one attendant to the next as we walk toward them. They all have different heights, shapes, genders, and skin tones, but their hair color is as uniform as their blue robes. One of the attendants on the top step […]
Chapter no 42
CHAPTER 42 No one said anything. Nesta only lifted her chin. “I …” I’d never seen her stumble for words. “I do not want to be remembered as a coward.” “No one would say that,” I offered quietly. “I would.” Nesta surveyed us all, her gaze jumping past Cassian. Not to slight him, but … […]
Chapter no 30
CHAPTER THIRTY Holding two daggers, I stand beside Xaden as the soldier backs away, joining what looks to be at least a couple dozen of his colleagues on horseback, all carrying swords at their left hips and daggers sheathed along their right arms. Five others retreat from our squadmates’ beds in the same manner, and […]
Chapter no 41
CHAPTER 41 The next two days were so busy that the lesson with Azriel was the only time I trained with him. The spymaster had returned from dispatching the messages Mor had written about the meeting moving up. They had agreed on the date, at least. But Mor’s declaration of the spot, despite her unyielding […]
Chapter no 29
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE It takes ten days to put plans in motion and get everything together, and the time wears on me like the steady drip of water in the interrogation chamber, grating on my very last nerve. I sit through every class as instructed and practice wielding until my arms drop from exhaustion, but I […]
Chapter no 40
CHAPTER 40 I had no bone to bring with me. And though every step up that hillside and then down into the dark ripped and weighed on me, I kept moving. Kept planting one foot in front of the other. I had the feeling Rhys did the same. Standing before the Bone Carver two hours […]