A Tale of Beauty and Beast (Beyond the Four Kingdoms, #2)

by Melanie Cellier

A chuckle escaped me. I hadn’t even been gone from Marin a week, and I was already counting disembodied, inaudible whispers as my only friends.

Dominic growled, a dark, threatening sound. “See,” said Jon. “Dominic agrees with me.” “Don’t be ridiculous, he could be saying anything!”

We only stopped practicing when Jon demanded our attention. “You have to be firm with them,” he told Dominic, as if imparting a great pearl of wisdom, and Lily threw a piece of half-buttered toast at him.