Immortal Consequences (The Souls of Blackwood Academy, #1)

by I.V. Marie

“Why is that a good thing?”

“Because…” Wren arched toward him. “Threads can break.”

“Isn’t it obvious?” he groaned against her mouth. “How desperately I need you? How hopelessly I am yours?”

They had become each other’s salvation. Fated souls destined to collide.

“You can’t keep running from yourself,” the other girl whispered, voice fading. “No matter what choice you end up making. No matter where you go—you will always be there.”

I need you to trust me.” He lifted her hands to his lips, placing a featherlight kiss against her knuckles. “Can you do that for me? Can you trust me?”

“But it was you who turned the light back on, Wren. The one who brought me back to life after years and years of drowning. It was you who dragged me back from hell. It was you. It was always you. It will always be you.”

“Because we couldn’t just snatch you from your bed in the middle of the night. We needed to wait. To be patient. To obey what is written and fulfill the Soulless One’s prophecy. Because you, Wren Loughty, are not just a regular recruit.” Edith’s gaze snaked over Wren’s face, drinking her in. “You are…so much more.”

Remember your promise.

But now August had made a new promise. One that outweighed everything. Find me. Wherever you are, wherever we end up, don’t stop looking for me. He would go to the ends of the afterlife, crawling on all fours, bloodied and bruised, if that was what it would take to bring Wren back. He would rip apart every last living soul, piece by piece, fragment by fragment, until there was nothing left but an empty abyss. He would carve out his humanity with his own two hands and let the darkness take him. Whatever it took. He would do it. He would find her.

It’s a long and frightfully boring story that I’m sure you’ll learn all about later. But for now, all you need to know is that we’ve been planning to infiltrate Blackwood and destroy it. We’ve been planning for centuries, but it’s finally coming to an end. The restart. The clean slate. We needed our catalyst to be ready. The destroyer of Blackwood. The one destined to lead us into battle. And, according to the Soulless One’s prophecy, that catalyst of destruction is…you.”