His Royal Breeder
The stone tiles cracked as dozens of blackened, skeletal hands erupted from the ground, reaching for Asher’s ankles to drag him into the earth.
Asher jumped, his body defying gravity as he hovered for a split second in mid air.
While airborne, he flicked his wrist. A tiny, needle thin bolt of purple light shot from his finger.
It hit Bella’s shoulder, and she let out a choked cry as her left arm went instantly limp, her magic fizzling out as the skeletal hands crumbled into dust.
"You see, Ariana?" Asher said, looking down at me as I huddled against the wall, clutching my stomach. "This is the difference between a dark witch and a King."