lle
o
onstrous Alpha strength. The heavy wooden door behind it split down the middle
eyes burning with frantic gold, and his drawn broadsword dripped wi
ined hall, locking instantly onto the
s armored hand caught the back of my tunic, hauli
d, whipping my golden da
nd my wrist, twisting just enough to force the blade fr
hest heaving against mine. His breath was ragged, hot
g them?" he growled, his voice trem
. "Away from your executioners! Did you think I would si
harp points, his jaw working as i
go
in the East Keep, staring at the
ished, breathtaking, nothing like the ruined, hollow-eyed creature I'd exiled five years ago. And thos
d been absolute. But the thought had already pla
but she would only say
; whenever I tried to recall why I'd been so certain of Ca
mind always se
ntrol of my life, and I'd suppressed the une
uglass Park stumbled in, bowing low as
carrier raven from the east tower. It
seal and unfurled
oned Tower is unguarded. Cut th
kwave detonate
ng to slaughter Camille and the child
ss on my authority. That I rode to prot
et them die. Not the woman. Not the girls. If those children carried my blo
e courtyard, tearing through m
fierce, wild beat of her heart beneath my fingers, th
tonight-it burned in my blood, demanding I keep her clos
ingle hair on your head," I r
ing laugh, shoving against my
s, Byrd. You threw me into
alf a step, my gaze shifting to the two trembl
The dark hair. The stubborn set of their jaws. The
ghtened unt
ifting my greatsword and driving the steel bla
" I ordered, my voice dropping into an unyield
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