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Kenzie looks up with a grin. “If someone’s staring at Maven, it’s probably because she’s so pretty.” Luka makes a face. “I can’t tell if you’re kidding. No offense, it’s just she’s kind of bland and?—“ “Close your mouth. If you ever open it around me again, you’ll learn what your innards taste like,” Crypt…

“Not happening. I need to shower. I’m sweaty.” It’s the lamest possible excuse, but there it is. My strongest defense, ladies and gentlemen. “Maven,” Silas says again, stopping beside us and frowning at her. “Curfew starts soon. Let’s go.” “I’ll stay with Everett.” My heart lurches right up into my throat, and I snap, “No,…

“Fuck off,” I say at the same time as Baelfire. “I haven’t had a chance to see how you are in combat,” she goes on, folding her arms as she glowers up at Crypt. “But if you can lose an ear, you can lose much worse.” I must be missing yet another thing because I…

I hesitate. Should I tell her this? It may only upset her. “Set on?” “Decimus,” I mutter. Her eyes widen in shocked outrage. I was right. This is upsetting her, so I hurry to finish and get it over with. “He was eight years old at the time and drew too much attention as the…

“Mm?” “I have a proposal for you.” I explain my idea for slowly helping her overcome her fear of touch through her subconscious while she’s dreaming. By the time I’m done speaking, she’s turned to face me, a thoughtful expression on her tired face. “Let’s do it. I suggested exposure therapy with the others as…

Dear gods. She actually slept with that unhinged freak in there? “He better not be messing with her head.” “We’ll remove his if he does.” Silas finally stands and then pauses, staring at something on my wall. I realize it’s the portrait I decided to finally hang up recently. The blood fae’s face darkens with…

MAVEN Fresh-fallen snow crunches under my boots as I walk into Halfton at two in the morning. It took more of my magic reserve than anticipated to break out of Everbound’s wards. But so far, none of the Immortal Quintet or their henchmen have jumped from the shadows and attempted to kill me. Which is…

A ghoul. That particular kind of shadow fiend is common in the Nether. They feed on newly deceased, unanimated corpses. While they’re fast and dangerous when angry, they rarely make it past the legacies guarding the Divide due to their unintelligent nature. At first, I think it’s odd to see one here in Halfton so…

And she will want more. I can’t be the only one dying for a mere touch. She dabs some of the poultice on my bruises before using small bursts of warm magic on my ruined hand. I’ve been tuning out the pain of that particular injury for several hours ever since a swarm of wisps…

I used up almost the rest of my magic reserve slipping back through the wards, and Kenzie was too queasy and dizzy to even ask how I managed it. Now, I’m supporting one side of her as we hide in one of Everbound Castle’s many alcoves, waiting for one of the Immortal Quintet’s hired legacies…