Semua Bab I Can't Be Mated to Him: Bab 321 - Bab 330

Someone takes her hand. Goddess above, is that Nessa fucking Winters? I thought she died in a Dun’s Crossing prison—but even as I think that, I half remember Candace mentioning she escaped.I lower the telescope and look at Father. He stares out over the approaching army, his face lined and bleak. T

Hollis and King Andri stand at the wall, islands of stillness in a sea of moving soldiers preparing to repel a siege. When Kieran slams the door shut behind us, they both turn. Hollis, with a breathless smile, touches the spot on his chest that mirrors where his mother’s necklace hangs on mine. A si

“I can’t believe you just let them die.” I shake my head.“You will believe when you must make similar choices.” There’s no room for argument in his tone. “And you will, or you are not my son.”I look at the cranberry surface of my drink instead of him.“Even when you do not tempt plague, though, it

Eva, I write at the top of the page. Then, my quill stops. What can I say? The words to explain this have eluded me since I woke up next to Hollis that first morning.The attempt is what matters. I re-ink my quill and begin writing.I am sorry. If there were bigger, more powerful ways to say that, I

Slowly, she stops shaking. A moment later, she puts her arms around my waist.“Then your father’s at least as much to blame for you,” she murmurs against my shirt.I endure the immediate gut-punch of refusal. I’m not scared of him. He doesn’t control me like her mother controlled her. But that’s not