ログインOn a whim, I try to roll him over, not expecting the iron cage of his arms to so much as shift. But he flips easily with a soft noise of surprise. I pull back, worried.“Apologies.” He smiles ruefully and taps the bandage on his face—on the side I rolled him to. “I think this will take some getting
“Oh.” I glance at Amval. Cirocco waits by his shoulder, clearly about to demand something similar. All the pressures of life suddenly descend back into place. With Kaloni dead, Amval has no rival for the crown. There’s going to be a coronation and then months of cleaning up what happened here. I’m g
Ingrid“The Goddess’ will is often far more complicated than any of us can guess,” Halit says, blood streaked on her cheek from the arrow she took to the shoulder before fleeing the altar.Laughter ripples through the temple. I know, from my second march up here, that the healthy hold up the wounded
And that is his mistake. The heartbeat he wastes on gloating gives me just enough time to slash at his unprotected throat, tearing through fur and old scar tissue.Blood waterfalls onto me, hot and fast. I wriggle out of the way before he crumples. Dead.Or at least it seems so. My halved vision mak
Amval“She will never be ready to marry my brother!” I shout as I storm into the packed temple, a sword lifted high above my head and a trail of allies collected from every corner of the palace behind me.Gasps ripple through the crowd, buoying my name forward. Ingrid turns, her jaw falling slack. T
I suck in a breath through my gritted teeth as Halit intones about the complexities of fate, how perhaps Amval dying was all part of Her cosmic plan for Cirocco and I to end up together. Maybe it was part of Her cosmic plan for me to punch a holy woman in the mouth.No. Joli is counting on me. Light
She is like nothing I’ve ever experienced. Distantly, I am aware I’ve had sex. After Anwen, half the women in the castle wouldn’t go anywhere near me, but the other half was more than happy to indulge a few awkward, teenage fumblings. I learned on my own, learned quietly where my brothers were loud.
“I reminded her she had selected the day I asked for her hand in marriage as our meeting,” he snarls at me. “Foolishly, I thought that would mean something. Just as you foolishly believe she was not leaving us for a long, long time before she strode out the doors. Who saw her?”“You.” I struggle to
“Watch the carriages,” I tell Vedran before peeling off to talk to him.“Surprised to see you out of bed.” Finn smirks.We spent last night drinking at that same little tavern until we could barely stumble to the castle, but the Haze infuses me with adrenaline.“Ah, so you were drunk.” I slump into
FinnMy paws thud over dirt. Wind tousles my fur. Here, in my wolf form, I can almost hide from all the thoughts whirling through my head and lose myself in the simple, animal pleasures.Those simple, animal pleasures being exactly what fucked me in the first place.Still, my body hums with energy.







