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January 14 - January 15, 2025
Kieran’s
“If
you have any intelligence, you would stop ...
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“And I will not be able to forgive you.”
“There is no side of you that is not as beautiful as the other half. Not a single inch isn’t stunning.”
“That was true the first time I said it to you, and it is still the truth today and tomorrow.”
“You smell of death.”
“If someone is idiot enough to insult and threaten you in front of Cas, it’s likely someone I wouldn’t have been particularly close to in the first place.”
“Maybe it is a breach of privacy,” he agreed. “But it would also give you an upper hand when dealing with people.”
“But he has every intention of dealing with you.”
“I don’t think either of you knows the truth.”
“No, the gods are real. They are our gods, and they now rest,”
“He didn’t lie about everything.”
“Why would he marry someone he plans to ransom off?”
“He has done things some might find unforgivable. Things that would haunt your sleep and leave you with nightmares long after you
wake. He may hate being called the Dark One, but he has earned that name.” Kieran’s pale eyes met mine as a shiver curled its way down my spine. “But he’s the one thing in all the kingdoms that you, and only you, never have to fear.”
“If you’re looking for a fight…” came a voice that sent a shiver down my spine and then over my skin. My head jerked in the direction of the sound. “You’ll fight me, Princess.”
“Just so you know, I’d do it again—kill a thousand versions of Landell,” he said, dampening some of the satisfaction I felt as I glanced at the sword he’d dropped. “And I wouldn’t lose a moment of sleep over it. But you never need to fear me. Never.”
“I don’t fear you.”
“Most people aren’t as insane as you,”
“That and how incredibly disturbing it is.”
“There is something so wrong with you!”
the moment the sword pierced her heart. Yanking the weapon free, I turned as she crumpled to the ground. Casteel had lopped off the head of a Craven, another surefire way of killing them. I wasn’t worried for him. I imagined it would take dozens of Craven, if not more, to overwhelm an Atlantian. Piercing the chest of another Craven, I couldn’t help but acknowledge that if there had been any semblance of truth behind the Ascended’s claims of the Dark One controlling the Craven, I doubted
they’d be trying to rip his skin open right now. I already knew that though, having seen the Craven go after him in the Blood Forest before. This was just more evidence of the truth he spoke. And the lies I’d been told. Fury energized me as I sliced the bloodstone through the neck of a Craven, severing its head. I whirled from the gore, only to come face-to-face with ghastly, inhuman eyes, and snapping teeth. A moment of pure, unadulterated terror swamped me when my gaze locked with the Craven’s. It threatened to
“Six,” Casteel called out. “You?”
“Four,” I answered, calming myself as I almost wished I didn’t know what he’d meant. I darted under the arms of another Craven, driving the sword deep into its back. “Five.”
“Sham...
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“But you didn’t need my help.”
“Sorry to disappoint you.”
“No,”
“On my leg. Scarred as it is now, it looks like claws did it, but it was fangs,”
“I never understood why I survived the bite while everyone else bitten was cursed. I’d planned to tell you about it after we were…together, but things happened. I didn’t say anything before because it was another thing I was told to keep silent about. The Queen told me it was because I was the Maiden, the one Chosen by the gods. That was why I didn’t turn. But I wasn’t ...
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“Maybe the Ascended were afraid that if people knew, someone would realize what that meant.”
“No, Poppy. You being mortal or half-Atlantian wouldn’t have changed what was already happening.”
“I’m not going to stop fighting you.”
“I wouldn’t want you to.”
“What took you two so long? I was actually beginning to wonder if she beat you.”
“You seem real concerned sitting there,”
“No, we didn’t,”
“A little over a dozen.”
“Wonder how that would’ve worked out for you with your meat knife.”
“S-shut up,”
“She knows it wouldn’t have worked out all that well for her.”
“I doubt that’s the only reason,”
“It would be nice,”
“Doubt I will get one, though.”
“Your expectations would be correct, then.”
“They usually are.” He studied me for a moment and then rose from the chair. “I’ll wrangle up some men and go out and take care of the Craven.”
“Behave, Princess.”
Kieran would track me.
