Chapter 10: Mother’s sword
POV: DORIAN I’d been putting this off for weeks. Dreading the moment. Knowing it would hurt her and hating that […]
To stop a brutal war, she’s forced into a political marriage with the most feared vampire general alive.
POV: DORIAN I’d been putting this off for weeks. Dreading the moment. Knowing it would hurt her and hating that […]
POV: NOVA Three days after the disastrous dinner, Dorian dragged me to the training grounds. “You need to learn vampire
POV: NOVA The formal dinner was a trap, and I knew it. Isolde’s invitation had arrived that morning, written in
POV: NOVA The political fallout from the feeding rooms was immediate and brutal. Three days after I’d freed the humans,
POV: NOVA I’d been in the fortress for a week, and I still couldn’t shake the feeling of wrongness. Not
POV: DORIAN Nova didn’t return to our chambers until well after dark. I’d been pacing for hours, feeling her through
POV: NOVA I woke to unfamiliar sounds—stone echoing footsteps, distant voices speaking in languages I didn’t know, the absence of
POV: NOVA The carriage ride to the fortress took three days. Three days of suffocating silence broken only by necessary
POV: DORIAN I’d been dreading this moment for twenty years. Viktor rode beside me in silence, his jaw tight with
POV: NOVA The scorched earth still smelled like death. I stood in the clearing where my childhood home had burned