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Down Below, Sira adopted a child and raised her as her own.
So Birdy is in fact...Rose's sister.
The Nightingale was adopted as a baby twenty-five years ago by Sira.
She also seeks vengeance for an unknown affront against her by Rosalina.
and fated mate to Wrenley
Not if I have anything to say about it he's fucking not.....
Unfortunately for Dayton, he’s not in love with her and has yet to break his curse.
Better stay that way too.
and fated mate of Daytonales
No she's not.
he hasn’t felt a flicker, not for the three months we’ve been here.
My shayla
My fangs gnash together, and a growl rumbles through my chest unconsciously. I don’t want to think about Wrenley right now.
Atta boy.
Logically, I knew this was bound to happen. I always knew I couldn’t keep him. That he didn’t belong to me. So why does it feel like my heart will rip out of my chest every time I think of the acolyte’s hand on his?
Because it's a lie.
I blink. There’s something else out there, in the deep water. Not a fish. A girl.
Wrenley’s smile broadens as I arrive, and she crosses to me, resting a hand on my arm.
Ew.
“We’ll go to her.” “What?” Wrenley rises quickly. “We’ll go to Delphie.
Don't take that shady bitch anywhere.
As I stare at the horizon, I feel like it’s calling me in a way it never has before. A tether drawing me deep beneath the blue waves.
THANK FUCK
“Ahh!” Wrenley cries, falling against me. The harpoon goes wide,
This bitch....
“Caspian,” he smiles, “I made you. I can unmake you just as easily.”
Nothing like a death threat to get your evil juices flowing....
“Rosie, Rosie, Rosie.” His large hand fists in my hair, and he murmurs frantic words. “Stars, I was so worried about you. Are you all right?”
Yaaaaassss.... Get your girl Daytonales.
“I’m not sure there’s much that could surprise me now.”
I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this.......
She snatches her hand away the instant I touch her, lips curling back, panic flaring in her blue eyes.
Shady...
It’s Wrenley who crosses to Dayton and puts her hand on his chest. “That Dayton and I are mates.”
Cue atomic explosion.
“We told Rosalina that Dayton found his mate.” Farron gestures to Wrenley, who sits only ten feet away from me. Keldarion gives a low growl, then walks over to Dayton and punches him on the nose.
FINALLY. Although you should be punching the cunt that started this trickery.
He sets the bottle down and strides from the room. “Not that any of you have anything to hide.”
Get her Cas. Expose Wrenley.
Bile rises in the back of my throat, but I force myself not to pull away. Mate.
No she's not.
There’s one flower that draws my attention. It shines with a light blue glow. I know this plant, one that goes by many names. Friar’s Lantern. The Deceiver’s Bloom. The Lonely Lover’s Flower.
Wrenley is the Nightingale in disguise?
“Right behind you,” I reply and quickly pocket the flower before heading after the Prince of Thorns.
Destroy it.
meets my gaze, her own blue as the ocean. I swear I’ve seen that color blue somewhere before.
In your sister. Nightingale.
“Rosalina, I swear to all the stars, if you wake up, I’ll never have another drink in my life.” I press my mouth to hers again, breathing into her lungs. “Baby, please wake up.”
The, "Baby, please…" damn near got me.
Arms banded around Rosalina, all goes hazy. The last thing I see is the flicker of something shiny beneath the water.
The necklace. With the Nightingale's poisoned shell.
I’m going to be led by an old human man trusting his heart. Well, I’ve done stupider things.
You are so oblivious it's hurting my head bro.
The shadowy figure paces, watching us, no doubt anticipating our next action. This man responds like he knows my every move.
I think it's one of his brothers.
He fought like he knew my every move because he does. The shadowed man throws back his hood, and my old master stares down at me.
Well damn.
“You’re right. I never fought Caspian.” Justus stands and looks down at us. “But I know how to combat the thorns because I was trained by the one who first wielded them.”
Her mother.
His old trident. “He knew your mother,” I say, as it finally dawns on me. “Because he was never a goat herder, just as he was never actually Justus. He’s Aeneas, the first High Prince of Summer.”
Well slap my face and make me call you Daddy.....that is a shock.
“The Golden Rose,” Birdy snaps. “I lost her location once she went out to sea. It’s not my fault. You know I have no mobility on the ocean.”
I MOTHERFUCKING KNEW IT.
“You’ve always been a princess to me, Birdy,” I say softly.
Literally...he means.
Humiliate the only person who’s never lost in the Sun Colosseum, I think. Unlikely.
Wait for it......
“Humiliate the only person who’s never lost in the Sun Colosseum?” Caspian says. “Unlikely.”
Now that was uncanny. Wasn't it?
So, I let my arm fall around him and I wonder to all the stars why falling asleep next to the Prince of Thorns doesn’t feel like the most terrible thing in the world.
I love when boyfriends-in-law become boyfriends.
And it’s not the one beside me.
You are so damn dumb.
“Some things are set. For example,” her butterfly eyes look from me to George, “you are both destined to find your rose shattered. Go back to the place where all was lost.”
Rosalina said she was taken over by her mating frenzy, but damn, there was a fire burning through me as well. One like I’ve never known. My cock was steel hard. Even after she fell asleep, the instinct never left me. All I wanted to do was rouse her from her slumber and kiss her and claim her and empty my seed deep inside.
And yet here you are, still not getting the fucking point.
Caspian draws his hand down Dayton’s rippling chest toward his very evident arousal. “I know you do. One you’re too scared to truly satisfy.”
He really is the only smart one.
I found this on the Nightingale’s potion desk, of all places. Can’t get it out of my mind. What reason could she have for experimenting with such a thing? Rosie, this is important.
Farron and Cas. The only ones with brains.
I grab his hands. “Because you’re her mate.”
We love an observant man.
“A very special one,” she says.
It’s important, Rosie.
Getting warmer.....
“You’re the Nightingale,” I breathe.
BINGO!
Even disguised in the white and gold acolyte robes, I can’t unsee the frenzy in her eyes. We led a snake right into our nest and fed her with our secrets.
“You really are a good person, Daytonales.” “Haven’t been told that too many times in my life.” She shakes her head. “It’s going to be your downfall.”
I hate her. But that was a big fat truth.
He’s right. I must fight this. Must fight death. I know the step I must take to decide my fate.
If you do it I swear to God I'll take back everything nice I've ever said about you.
Farron smiles at me, a smile that doesn’t reach his eyes.
Dude......
