Labyrinth of Twisted Games (The Order #2)

by Katerina St. Clair

"Do you know why the Prophet fears me?" their voice questions.

"Why?" I mutter, barely hanging on.

"I made death bow on his knees and gave the angels a reason to fall.

"The Prophet bound many voices. Xavier, Andrew, and even Mark.

"That Xavier and Fallan are not new acquaintances," The Shifter says,

my lips touch hers, it's lights out for me, and given the connection you so kindly laid

dormant until she was gracious enough to want my blood, that means lights out for her as well?

take Forest's blood, and then you kill her, and the potential for imperfect Marked

seize to exist, leaving me the ability to create a newer, more submissive,

divine race of humans. I faltered the first tim...

wrapping me up in all the ways Fallan had that night of the bonfire. His touch warmed my skin,

"He touched you," Fallan mutters against my neck.

"Do something about it, Fallan," I say in a shaky tone.

"Can I touch you?" He questions, holding my face between his hands.

"In any way you need," I let out with a...

"I don't mean gently, Dove," He silently whispers. Al...

you cum before I tell you to, I will fuck you so hard

these people's Apparatus will be out of commission,"

"Say my name," He clarifies with harder thrusts into me.

"Say you're mine, Dove," Fallan reiterates.

want Forsest to be my weapon. I want what she can do,

"Your blood, Forest, can turn my people back to the humans we once were,"

"Should I really lay out why you agreed to deliver Forest to me in the first place?

"I love her," He says as if I care how he feels about her. "So do I," I snap,

"But you already knew that," I whisper, moving forward once more.

"As if she wasn't already mine," He throws in my face,

"She will never truly be yours so long as the part of her

once locked away guides her thoughts," I smile,

The same reason you did not deliver her to me.

You weren't supposed to fall in love," I gripe,

"Neither were you," Fall...

"I severed your false bond with Forest," The Prophet warns,

"Or have you forgotten you never truly had a real connection with her to begin with?"

"You were supposed to kill her. The agreement we made behind Xavier's back was solid."

"You killed her father," The Prophet snaps,

"You had no issue slipping into her mind, convincing Forest her

father was Xavier before Andrew could unveil any of your secrets once he pieced together his altered memory.

"Dove's dead!" I yell, rattling my chains with rage. "I lost her long ago-"

"He was in love with her, and when he made the deal with the Prophet to avenge her

behind Xavier's back, he ensured anyone who remembered Dove would see

to it her image was replaced by Forest,"...

"He was hunting her to avenge his real love's death," The Prophet chimes in,

"She snapped your little birdie's neck with zero hesitation,

yet you still are convinced you love her-"

"I slipped my blood in her meals a year prior when I was tasked

to run the delivery routes for your sector," I admit,

I have fallen in love with her. I would sacrifice everything I am to save her from this."

"We've been beneath the compound this whole time."

"If I tell you the truth, if I break the Prophet's rules, we both die," Xavier whispers,

Could this frail old man be the person responsible for all the torture