Todos os capítulos de The Second Shore: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

Her own.What had her own heart actually wanted?The night came on. The lanterns were lit one after another, and their yellow light came through the lattice and laid long, lonely shapes across the floor.Lionel came in quietly with a bowl of broth, looked at that solitary back, sighed inwardly, and

He was still laughing when the tears started coming properly, in heavy drops, and hitting the cold floor tiles.“Then why take a blade for me?” It came out of him hoarse and broken, and he might have been asking Lionel and he might have been asking himself. “Why swallow poison in my place? Why be ki

The south. Clearwater Town.The spring was at its best, and the willow down was coming down through the air like slow snow.On a corner of one of the streets there was a small book-and-art shop called Rivers & Ink. The front of it was plain enough, but inside it had been kept clean and quiet and rat

It was from the residence, years ago. An assassin had come at them and the blade had gone across her wrist on its way past.She had bled a great deal. He had dressed it himself.Evelyn pulled against his grip and he only tightened it, so she stopped trying, and met his eyes instead, and said, flatly

Evelyn stood quietly and let him get to the end of it.Then she spoke, and her voice hadn't changed at all, and it went in like an icicle, straight at the softest place in him, the one he never let anyone near.“Does Your Majesty remember how my maid Maeve died?”Lucien went stiff.“Does Your Majest