From Ashes To Power Novels & Stories

"Your family will die like this too! Your soul will also cry like my love cried... I'll destroy your empire even if I have to destroy myself..." He smirked. "Power is an addiction, my child... You can't destroy this empire because it will turn you into dust too... You are here because of this power." She looked at him for a second and started laughing loudly. Her psychotic laugh echoed in the castle. "You haven't recognised me yet! I will bleed to see your family in a river of blood... You fucked up... My life has only one purpose now, you can sit down and watch. Only if you can stop the storm which is coming for you."

Hope Hate it radiates from every cell in my body. It burns with every breath i take as i drag my tired feet through the mud beneth me forcing myself to stand when i hear the men shouting from the door keeping us locked in this god forsaken place. I can hear the cough of a small girl no more than 10 in the cell next to mine, her chains rattiling with every shake of her shoulders. i wonder what she did to get here. Shes weak we all are, no food or water for two days will do that to you. The dougens smell of sulfure and desparation. Its dark with a single dimly lit lantern sitting in the corner. It flickers from the small breeze coming from beneath the doungen door. My name is hope, its kind of

I want you to know I heard you say it and I want it recorded somewhere that you were right. *Esme, you asked me once where the birds went. They go to the places that have what they need. Build a place that has what is needed — in yourself, in your work, in the people you choose. The birds will come back.* *I love you both completely. Not the performing version of completely — the actual version, the one that contains what you are now and what you are becoming and what you will be, the version that holds the hard parts of the building and finds them worth it.*

I had no answer. She let me go. Her gaze shifted to the urn in my arms. "You won't take this when it's offered? Then I am taking it from you. "You will not see your father's ashes again." She reached. The blood in my arms went cold. The control I had been holding cracked. "Please… please don't. It wasn't me. I'll do anything, anything you want. Just don't." I was about to fall to my knees again. I would have. The pride and dignity I'd had walking in here had been gone for hours.

Daisy got into the car and closed the door. Caleb leaned back against the seat with his eyes closed. Sweat covered his forehead. Daisy looked out the window. The lights of Verdant Manor grew farther and farther away as thick smoke rose into the night sky. She tightened her grip around the divorce agreement in her hands. This time, she was truly free.

he cried. I stopped walking and looked at the man who had once been the untouchable prince of Saphira's elite circle. Now, he was nothing more than a mad beggar without an ounce of his former dignity. I felt neither sympathy nor satisfaction at his downfall. The only thing left was a sense of peace, as I had completely let go of the past. I said, "Live well, Wayne. Carry the debt you owe me and spend a long life in the damning swamp you've created for yourself."

I am power incarnate. I can feel it, this power, like a current running through my bones. I push it out toward Alek and Ryan, my mates, drawing it back from Asher even though it drains me to do it. It’s like ripping threads out of my own soul, but it feels right—this power belongs with them, not with her.

He held his back with one hand and tried to steady himself with the other. But the pain was too much. Ashier fell on his knees and groaned loudly, his face contorted in agony. Alisha stopped talking and rushed to his side. "Your highness, what's wrong?" she asked, worry etched on her face. Ashier couldn't answer. He was too busy trying to manage the pain. He knew what was happening. His wound was hurting again because he had used his power to save Blair. Whenever he used his powers, the dark energy seeped out of his energy, causing him to weaken and feel intense pain.