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From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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The Prince. Just because the Descenters believed Casteel was the

rightful heir, didn’t make it true.

Myy gaze fell to the sack. I was hungryy, and I needed myy strength…

and possiblyy a Healer because while the wound had stopped bleeding, it

would probablyy get infected down here.

I moved gingerlyy, picking up the sack. “Are yyou going to stand there

and watch me eat?”

“Wouldn’t want yyou to choke.”

I had the strangest urge to laugh, but I opened the pouch and ate the

cheese and bread. The food settled in myy emptyy stomach like clumps of

stone.

Delano didn’t speak after that. Neither did I, and I returned to leaning

against the wall. Some time later, the door opened once more, and I looked

out even though I didn’t want to. I saw the tall, too-recognizable form

garbed in black, looking so much like the…like the guard who’d teased me

over Miss Willa Colyyns’ diaryy. Myy heart squeezed as if it were captured in

a fist.

Hawke stopped in front of the barred door, his striking face both

familiar and that of a stranger.

“Leave,” Hawke commanded, and Delano hesitated for onlyy a

moment before he issued a curt nod and was gone. Then there was just us,

separated byy bars.

“Poppyy,” Hawke sighed, and I shuddered. “What am I to do with

yyou?”

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