la
ting moments of blessed, unconsciousness. Each time I woke, I felt a piece of
time passed before t
inst the dim light. Isabell held a rolled-up parc
tom, I could see my father's familiar looping signat
ear and cold, like a j
shame upon this pack, Kaela Hicks is hereby exiled. She is cast out from the Stonefang Pa
wn words. His
il
. A broken, rattling sound escaped my throat. The darkness
I heard Ethelene's voice, pleased, and dista
el it. A new kind of pain. Sharp.
r. The smell of burni
e, poison f
quite taken with it once, wasn't he? Such a pity. I've always hated your left profile-the way yo
eye to the corner of my jaw. It was a deep, agonizing burn that we
e wasn't just cutting me. She was car
he pain
gth to run or fight," Isabell's voic
t. A sickening pop. Then the othe
ng my tendons.
sness, my body twitched and jerk
ken doll in
sabell toss the bloodied silver kn
the servants, her voice filled with dis
ground for criminals, exiles, and the unwa
th se
no more care than a sack of garbage. I was dragged, thrown onto the bed
as a blur of
was ai
ddy embankment until I came to a
to my ruined face. The icy drops on my ski
g. A toe. Nothing. My limbs were
d to lift a hand, my arm a dead
p, ragged canyons where smooth skin used to
a mo
d over me. I was going to die here
. I fe
tter. Deep within
wasn't the lingering
as l
age and the heartbreak, my baby-or one of them-had surv
ignited a fire in t
ld no
not let
wards the black, unforgiving sky. I couldn't speak, but a
helene. Pre
ed like brands
ead. I will become a monster far worse than the one you made m
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