Vale of Dreams (Fey Academy for Spies, #2)

by C.N. Crawford

“We can’t be together. We never should have been. Back in Dover, when I thought you might be captured, I would have sacrificed all of Avalon Tower for you. And here you are, on a mission by yourself, talking about hunting down the king or searching for portal keys. You could have been captured. And then what? One of our only two Sentinels, an Avalon Steel agent, would be in their dungeons. And Nia, you don’t know what it’s like…I’m lucky I didn’t break. We have to be thinking as clearly as possible in this war. We can’t have our decisions clouded by love. I don’t want you risking your life for me, Sentinel or not.” “But I made the right decision to get you out of there.” A line etches between his eyebrows. “You came here alone.” A ragged edge tinges his voice. “And believe me, I would have done the same if I thought it was the best way to get you out. Love drives us to make the most reckless decisions, but that’s not what the world needs from us. The world needs us to be thinking clearly, rationally. I appreciate that you came here for me, but I hate it, too, because you never should have risked your life. I need you to go back now, and I need us to think like trained spies again, not like lovers. We never should have broken the rules in the first place. Because…I kept replaying that day in my mind over and over, the day I was captured. Every time they were beating me or torturing me, it looped in my mind. Every stupid misstep I made. The ways I could have made a better de...