Chapter no 28
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “You can’t be serious,” Rhi whispers next to me three days later in Battle Brief as Professor Devera questions first-years about the fall of Vallia, a midsize city two hundred miles west of the Bay of Malek. Not only are the venin moving in Krovla again, but in the eight days we were […]
Chapter no 39
CHAPTER 39 The Illyrian camp remained in the hills above Adriata. Mostly because there were so many injured that we couldn’t move them until they’d healed enough to survive it. Wings shredded, guts dangling out, faces mauled … I don’t know how my friends were still standing as they tended to the wounded as much […]
Chapter no 27
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Guards move in and everything goes to complete, immediate shit. Xaden draws both his swords, then surprises the hell out of me by tossing one across the gap to Halden, who catches it with his left hand in the same breath that I palm two of my daggers. We are not dying tonight. […]
Chapter no 38
CHAPTER 38 Mor was shaking me. I only knew it because Rhys threw me out of his mind the moment he unleashed himself upon those soldiers. You were here too long, was all he said, caressing a dark talon down my face. Then I was out, stumbling down the bond, his shield slamming shut behind […]
Chapter no 26
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Deverelli is beautiful by sunset, or at least it would be if I could concentrate on taking the time to really appreciate the isle. Instead, I’m focused on exactly how close Tairn thinks he can fly to the treetops without actually crashing into one as we race along the hillside ahead of Sgaeyl. […]
Chapter no 37
CHAPTER 37 Blood slid from the tips of Rhys’s twin blades onto the deck. One drop—two. Three. Mother above. The king— The King of Hybern wore his own colors: slate gray, embroidered with bone-colored thread. Not a weapon on him. Not a speckle of blood. Within Rhys’s mind, there was no jagged breath for me […]
Chapter no 25
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Iabandon my towel and my common sense, throwing my arms around his neck and pouring my whole heart into the kiss. Who cares if we’re in a house full of servants and a viscount I don’t trust? If Xaden has set sexual limits between us the last six weeks? He’s kissing me like […]
Chapter no 36
CHAPTER 36 The first and second kills were the hardest. I didn’t waste physical strength on the cluster of five Hybern soldiers—High Fae, not Attor-like underlings— forcing their way into a barricaded room full of terrified servants. No, even as my body hesitated at the kills, my magic did not. The two soldiers nearest me […]
Chapter no 24
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR “Books?” I whisper, my fingers curling around the dagger I realize is still in my left hand. Narelle tilts her head. “I did not stutter.” She looks pointedly at the armchair. “Put that back in its place.” Xaden lifts a brow but does as she asks, then crosses the small section of the […]
Chapter no 35
CHAPTER 35 Hybern had made its grand move at last. And we had not anticipated it. I knew Azriel would take the blame upon himself. One look at the shadowsinger as he prowled through the front door of the town house minutes later, Cassian on his heels, told me that he already did. We stood […]