Rain of Shadows and Endings (Legacy, #1)

by Melissa K. Roehrich

“I choose Tessalyn Ausra to be my bonded Source,” Theon announced, his voice skittering over her bones.

“I am Theon St. Orcas, Heir to the Arius Kingdom. You are Tessalyn Ausra. I have Selected you to be my Source. You obey me above all others. My desires are your desires. You are mine.”

Be what they want you to be now, so you can be who you were meant to be later.

No one ever knew what to do with her except shove her aside. Lock her away. Too wild to be something, so forced to be nothing.

She wouldn’t survive this. It would break her. And she didn’t burn when she broke. She shattered, and the world shattered with her.

“Consequence. Punishment. They’re the same thing, even if one word sounds prettier than the other. I would know.”

“Know that sometimes we must break to be forged into who we were meant to be,”

“And what will you do when there is nothing left, Theon?” She heard him suck in a sharp breath. “What will you do when you have taken everything and left me with nothing?”

“In all things there must be balance. Beginnings and Endings. Light and Dark. Fire and Shadows. The sky, the sea, the realms. But when the scales tip, And Chaos rains, Who will fight? And who will fall? For Dark must bow, And Light must rule, But Chaos does not choose. Control the uncontrollable, Or to fury they both lose. Life must give, And Death must take, But Fate requires more. Destiny beckons, And sacrifice demands. Who will be left standing, When Chaos comes to reign?”