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Chapter 153
“When I kill my brother and we get out of this shithole, you’ll be lucky if I let you leave my bed the rest of the week.” His lips brushed my ear, once and then twice before he pulled away. “Actually, I’m going to need the rest of the month to get the taste of your fear out of my head—luckily I know just what to replace it with. When I said I wanted to hear you scream, this wasn’t what I had in mind.”
At the same time, his voice slid into my head.
‘Nadia is close by, but she won’t reveal herself. There’s something about the four of us here together that has her afraid. She’s listening, but she can’t quite find us.’ The corner of his full lips lifted into a smirk. ‘Try not to sound too breathless when you respond, darling. Now tell me, where are the others?’
“How can you joke at a time like this?” Even a whisper felt loud, and I wondered how close Nad
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A rebuttal singed the tip of my tongue when the pressure around us plummeted, making my ears pop and eyes bulge before the heady darkness that once surrounded us raced to the stone walls and began to encompass the circular ballroom.I barely had time to witness his magic climbing the walls, clinging to the mildew within the cracks of stone, inching higher like gnarled vines. A burst of magic left me, crackling like a wildfire doused in my gasoline-laced emotions. Every bit of jagged anticipation I felt from Dain’s words was force fed into the flames, making me bloat with magic that roared as it found release.Half a dozen blasts of a fiery crimson magic exploded in the direction Dain had turned me in, and quickly I realized they responded to my guidance. Callum shimmered into existence when all six hit him in the chest and sent him flying backwards over ten feet.The crack his head made against the stone wall echoed in my ears. It wasn’t the platter
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“Mom?”She whirled in my direction like a puppet whose strings were pulled. Her fiery hair was wild, standing in knotted curls on her head. It wasn’t her eyes, fractured with desperation and longing that kept me rooted in place, deaf to my own voice as I whispered, “…days ago?”Just like that, the presence of my parents ceased to matter.A jolt of something achingly hot spilled beneath my skin, followed by the crackling of open flame and burning flesh, a sound that only I could hear.With my spine stiff, I pivoted to face Dain.Countless times I traced the mask he placed over his face, so skillful at hiding his emotions that I sometimes wondered if he had any.This time was different.It wasn’t regret that painted his face in wilting shades of black and blue, but an apology. Sincerity coated his eyes in a glossy sheen, but the realization of what he’d done—of what he’d kept
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