My Blood Wizard System
Jax (shirtless, soot-streaked, grinning) unfolded a lawn chair someone had looted from a wrecked patio and sat front-row with a warm beer.
Li appeared beside him with a bowl of popcorn that smelled suspiciously like brimstone.
“Ten bucks says the Council lasts thirty seconds,” Jax announced.
“Twenty says fifteen,” Li countered.
Elowen just sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.
Vespera’s eyes narrowed on the glowing Sanguis Draconis marks blazing on my hip and Thorne’s chest.
“That mark is an abomination,” she spat.
I lifted our joined hands.
The mark answered (white-gold fire and midnight shadow spiraling upward into a perfect eclipsed sun that hung above the courtyard like a second, an