Masuk“No.” I looked up at him through my lashes. “I mean it. At dinner, when you told me about your vision… I didn’t fully understand. But now…” I glanced back at the soldiers. “Now I see what you’re building. What we could build together.” He grabbed my waist and pulled me closer. “You’ve changed your
Natalia’s POVThirty minutes. I pulled back from the window and rushed over to the door. Through the wood, I could hear the guard pacing outside. I needed him gone. Dead, preferably. Opening the door just a crack, I called out softly, “Excuse me? Guard?” The footsteps stopped. “Yes?” “Could
I gave him nothing. For what felt like hours, the King tortured Thomas. He didn’t seem to want information; he only wanted Thomas to bend the knee. To say that “Damon” was his King and that he would be loyal to the cause.It was sickening, seeing him torture a man for his own ego. If it had been f
Natalia’s POVI waited by the window, staring out at the white expanse of snow and fog. The cold air bit at my face, but I didn’t close it. I needed to hear those howls the moment they came. Minutes crawled by. Then an hour. Maybe more. I couldn’t tell anymore.All the while, the twins continued t
My throat clenched so tightly I almost couldn’t breathe. I sank onto the edge of the bed, still clutching the letter opener in my hand. “He wants to use the ruby on them,” I whispered. “There’s no way to reverse it, Andrei. If he gets ahold of them—”“Here.” Andrei pulled something out of his belt—a
Natalia’s POVMy teeth sank into the flesh of the hand covering my mouth before I could think. My attacker released me with a grunt, and I spun, finding a man standing behind me—in a guard’s uniform. Placing myself between him and the twins, I reached for the letter opener in my pocket—the only thin







