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Standalone NovelsObsessionFrigidSco
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Table of ContentsBook DescriptionAb
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DedicationDedicated to the heroes
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Chapter 1“Lower your swords,” Q
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“My Queen,” he breathed, and th
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Beckett’s broken legs—the same
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“She’s right,” Alastir uttere
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And in an instant, I could see it a
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Temple. Of the wolven, only Jasper,
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“But I didn’t touch them, Caste
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His father didn’t. “As long as
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Chapter 2Alastir Davenwell was Cast
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“Wait!” Alastir shouted, his ch
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the vibrant golden swirl across my
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jerking straight and then bowing. T
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Nothing.I felt nothing in him, Kier
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arms. Flipping the dagger in my han
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Chapter 3What a pretty little flowe
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An image of him formed in my mind,
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Nyktos himself who bestowed the pow
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“But he would’ve been greatly i
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skating over the side of a coffin.C
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Realization swept through me in a w
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“Actually, no,” he replied, sur
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Gritting my teeth against the press
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Fury burned through my chest and my
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not have had anger-management issue
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swore an oath to protect Atlantia a
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inn?”He nodded as the torches fli
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“Liar!” I shouted. “Casteel h
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Chapter 5I couldn’t have heard hi
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My stomach hollowed. The idea of be
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marry your great-niece or another f
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“Growing up among the Royals and
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“You?” I laughed. “You want w
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Blessed. The Maiden. And that part
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Numbness swept through my body, dea
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had fallen before Pompay during the
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I forced myself to show no reaction
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“I don’t know. Not that long,
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“A little?” I whispered.“Okay
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hatred. I didn’t try to stop it.
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prepared to deliver a fatal blow. M
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Chapter 7Stunned, I looked up, my e
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“I’m going to fix that. I promi
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“There you are,” he said, his c
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“Then I will deal with what comes
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There was only fire on my skin and
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than all the stars in the sky.”
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There was a warm, damp touch to my
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eyes wouldn’t open again, but the
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“Her eyes,” the other said as t
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his wrist against my mouth. All tha
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Him. I wanted him.Keeping his wrist
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filled that gnawing, painful hollow
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Chapter 9Casteel shuddered as he wh
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flush to his chest, he ground his h
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He drew back enough that his forehe
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I dragged my thumb along his bottom
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“No. Not that.” Well, I could f
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doing. My eyes narrowed on the bare
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very first time in New Haven, I thi
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“Okay, and a little confused,”
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the kiyou were given mortal form. N
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physical changes. It was why Castee
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Kieran patted my shoulder, or rathe
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not steer you wrong, Poppy. It will
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Chapter 11Casteel’s chest rose wi
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I shut down the unnecessary panic s
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I could tell. I don’t know if the
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Alastir said that he didn’t kill
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what his father or Alastir wanted.
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what Casteel had been about to do,
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I opened my mouth, then closed it,
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scars there. “We have no idea why
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Naill’s brows lifted as he blinke
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you,” I muttered.A dimple appeare
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“They were like that when we arri
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Chapter 12Under a canopy of glitter
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while. But that sleep hadn’t been
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at my cool cheeks as my eyes adjust
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landscape, thickening in the distan
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One of the Atlantians stepped forwa
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friend? Or did he still believe tha
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your entire eye that is.” His hea
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The King of Atlantia rose slowly, c
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everything. There is nothing greate
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always a warning of very bad things
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“They will only know that you are
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Was it my bloodline—the eather in
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Casteel couldn’t even communicate
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Alastir stared straight ahead. “I
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Chapter 14Dawn arrived in vivid str
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Chambers of Nyktos from the road. I
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After he’d Ascended me into…wha
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But how could that happen? If Caste
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appeared frozen, and then an older
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Just curiosity and confusion. I had
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Chapter 15Jasper’s home sat atop
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The male grinned, but I had a feeli
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“You’ll get used to it,” Kier
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the ones from when we’d first ent
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how close I’d come to losing an e
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my heart…and I hoped that didn’
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“I think these straps are very im
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me. It’s okay to not be okay when
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get some food in us, and eventually
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A deep, rough sound came from the b
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deity or a goddess. Not when those
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my breast wrung a gasp from me as h
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had I been this exposed to him. A f
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finger, against his mouth. The sigh
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explain it, but it was like his uni
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Chapter 17Upon his return, I figure
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“Why do you like saying that word
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“True.” His arm eased off me, a
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My brows knitted. “All of that so
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I tipped toward him. “I know that
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“I’m sure you are,” I muttere
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feed from me, or that I saw you nak
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“What?” I didn’t know that.He
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Atlantians. “And things that have
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“And you think there’s somethin
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about to ask that. “It may have h
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Chapter 18My stomach tumbled as I s
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concern. It was a new experience to
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I swallowed hard as instinct demand
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As the other creature started to re
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then brought the dagger down, a dir
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Where my parents died. Alastir obvi
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The King turned to us—to me. “W
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them to be seen and heard, they wor
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“I think it is,” I said. “It
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“I wouldn’t.” Casteel came to
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“No one has spoken the name of th
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Crown—knew that one of your paren
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Other than his mother, as unlikely
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sealed his lips over the tingling s
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“Shocker,” I murmured.While Cas
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there wasn’t much for this artist
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There was that word again. It tugge
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crypt and remove the bones of the d
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“That’s because you’re both i
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“Very few who are still alive.”
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My mind was…well, it couldn’t e
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It could’ve been last night, when
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fault either. You were trying to fi
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“That was some four hundred years
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“I…” My stomach tumbled some
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“It is possible,” Kieran began,
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flesh-eating butterflies were in my
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“There was supposedly another bef
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several centuries ago, around the t
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Penellaphe. He was a deity—the mo
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I nodded. “He planned to use me a
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eyes as I glanced at her. Her lips
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Telling her that I hoped so probabl
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will go after every Ascended. There
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“I would say that doesn’t sound
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“And millions could die,” she a
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“It’s not that I don’t want t
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morning and could then take as many
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Chapter 30I was moving before I rea
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Skotos Mountains and descend upon S
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protected in case any in Spessa’s
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Atlantia, but my brother was more i
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things, I gave him a quick rundown.
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Chapter 31As we left Saion’s Cove
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wave of awareness. None of us was s
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ago, when Casteel and I had finally
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“You know I will never stop you f
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being a trap. Like I said, they kno
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A dimple appeared in his right chee
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intensity, stealing my breath. My e
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Vonetta arrived shortly after, her
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her. “This stress is the last thi
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“Thank you for explaining,” I s
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Lifting my chin, I heard myself spe
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storm brewing beside me. “Alone.
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he’d barely spoken of his wife, a
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Relief warred with disappointment s
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Nova frowned from where she stood b
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I nodded in agreement. “Are you f
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We stopped on the edge of the midni
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good Queen, but I want to make thin
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“Are you going to cry?”“I don
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Heart pounding, I stared into the d
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slumbered and that my blood would h
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Sitting in between Casteel and Kier
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“No.” Surprisingly, I wasn’t.
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I looked down, running my finger ov
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by nudging the mare with his nose a
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signified that there were still Uns
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My flesh sparked.Silvery-white embe
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Chapter 35“It could’ve been som
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you looked, strips surrounding the
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Needless to say, I was grateful for
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“For once, that bitch spoke the t
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been. I was surprised to hear that
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coated the inside of my mouth. Perr
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Although this was the Temple, a wic
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golden, shining bone. I hadn’t se
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Chapter 36Eloana unclasped her hand
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A tremor coursed through me. I reac
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throughout Evaemon that their new K
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kindness and strength, and to lead
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manager—or the magician of the pa
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Taking my hand, we walked forward u
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“As you were,” Casteel issued w
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That throaty, smoky voice stopped m
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take seats at the table but took tw
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paid dearly for their sins.” My g
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bay,” Casteel said, making it cle
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my Queen? The plan isn’t set in s
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Chapter 38After Willa’s unsettlin
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shoulder to the door. “And I knew
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Hisa stood at the doors. The Elders
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A laugh bubbled up, but I managed t
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Casteel choked on what sounded an a
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And there were many indecent things
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neither Ian nor I really celebrated
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“Whatever.” I bit down on my li
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brother to me and that there is no
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“Nyktos is protected by guards,
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I shuddered.“Sorry.” Casteel ge
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morning—”“Is that what you tw
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“What is in this book? I have a f
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grasped his sister’s hand, pullin
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I exhaled roughly, looking over my
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“I’m assuming that didn’t hap
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Free from whatever hole it had lite
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surface. Silvery-white light crowde
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back with dirt. The landscape was o
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“You all are staring at diamonds,
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full of intelligence, it awed me. I
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show your gratitude. Should I kill
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Drawing in a shallow breath, I nodd
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decades.”I didn’t touch the gla
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to even process what that could mea
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Chapter 42You always had the power
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for me to learn how to lead an army
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day in the halls as I’d left to e
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wanted him to marry would have to b
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“Good.” I met her gaze, smiling
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“I have to agree,” Hisa spoke u
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The way those two words rolled off
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started, “it might help if you st
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faster, pulling the shirt up and ov
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Pulse pounding, I scanned the page.
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I drew his blood into me, struck fi
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‘Cas.’ Or my mother calling me
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His gaze swept over me, lingering o
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Atlantia. The group that had travel
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crates are loaded, you will take th
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“I suppose I was sleeping,” Cas
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Casteel chuckled. “That won’t b
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station guards in these tunnels jus
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to his lower half. The sharp defini
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She was no servant. If the clothing
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“You’re going to let me go?”
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stationed in front of each one. Sev
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thick, cold slush. I looked past th
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Chapter 45“What a happy reunion,
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Ian said nothing.Queen Ileana tugge
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“But I suppose it could be consid
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if you thought that any of us would
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smiled as she drew a thumb across t
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“What about their heads?” Caste
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podium. It was then when I realized
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this entire time that Queen Ileana
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that I was the same.” Her eyes we
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“All of this for revenge?” I wh
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“I’m not making you do anything
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Her dark eyes glistened with tears
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I dug at my throat, panic blossomin
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darkness staining the rose color of
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colliding with the world around me.
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Innocent.Behind her, people scatter
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“You’re wrong. I stopped,” I
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My gaze lowered to my hand. I turne
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I looked down at my hands—at the
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Chapter 48I stalked through the pal
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before Nyktos and told him that he
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Eloana rose, collapsing onto the se
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I lifted my left hand, showing her
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“I know.” I curled my fingers a
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they send had better be fit to rece
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their parents were en route to Evae
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“And?” he queried quietly. “Y
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Casteel…he had been right.Nektas
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My breath caught, burning my throat
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material, though. Colder weather ha
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Led by Valyn and the Guardians, the
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mortal form. If things went the way
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Slowly, the King turned his head to
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on to his arm, not letting him get
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now. And if she kills Casteel? If a
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the one thing he wants more than an
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