EMBER’S POVHis jaw works, and then he nods.The scale glows and reaches into me, and I feel it lift the whole rot of Gale out — years of terror and grinding and a white hospital ceiling, flashes after flashes, of violence and blood and cruel words and down to the sex with Logan — and then there’s a smooth blank place where he lived, and I know only, the way you know a fact about a stranger, that I was married once, and it was bad, and I left.The details of it are gone. And it doesn’t hurt at all.The light of the scale dies down, and I am heaving, chest heaving and confused.What did I give away?It’s hard to dwell on, because Devika’s wound is still crushing.“And you, King,” Silas says.Knox is quiet. Then, he says softly:“My father. Everything he was. Everything he did to my mother, to me, to this life. The night he nearly killed her, and every night before it, and every day since I’ve spent carrying the fear that I’m made of the same thing.” His face is stone. “I’ve let that ma
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