로그인On 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
“Luna Maris.” A crisp voice, military, but not one I recognize. I can’t see them either. “There is news from Tansy Beach.”“Tell me.”“King Alden ills. He coughs into a handkerchief that he hides quickly and remains often in bed. Rumor says that he has been complaining of headaches.”My stomach fall
She rolls her hips against me, and I start moving. Her heartbeat, fast but not frenetic, under my palm sets our pace. She groans, begging for more, faster, but she won’t release her grip on my arm long enough to use her words.Of course, she doesn’t have to. I want to see her explode, fall apart. My
Finn tenses. He starts to shift in front of me, then shifts back. My mark hums. He’s listening. So will I.Where he cannot see me, I shift ever so slightly behind him. Wedged as I am, I cannot escape quickly. Perhaps a little added protection isn’t the worst idea.Something splashes, and my heart le
Denidor spat in the face of that. He is lucky we have other enemies to face today.I’ll find Matej. Finn leaps through an open trapdoor to the lower portion of Denidor’s boat to find the undersecretary.I scale the high platform Denidor stands atop. He’s no fool—he built it so a wolf could get up an







