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May 3 - May 7, 2025
An uneasy feeling crawled along my spine.
Unrest was certainly brewing.
If I was a goddess, and we’d had years together in the past, then there was something else he wasn’t telling me. Something I’d get to the bottom of once we were home.
My home was House Wrath. By choice. Something dark rose up inside me, protective.
Shadow’
‘Witch’
“And he is her fate. As she is his. ‘As above, so below.’ They are the balance. Light and dark. One fallen from above, and one created in the underworld below.”
His words felt right—like a key sliding into a lock.
Sadness. That’s what flashed in his eyes before he looked away. He believed it to be true. Bile seared up the back of my throat;
part of me wanted to have my twin rip it from me at once.
“Don’t.”
“Don’t even consider it. You’re not rea...
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“There’s a small chance you may not survive the transformation.”
If my husband trusted him, then so would I.
“If my heart is the only thing standing in your way,” I asked Vittoria, “why not just take it?” “She can’t,” Envy said. “You must choose to let it go.”
“Home.”
“It’s all another deception, isn’t it?”
she’s near. Which is all the time lately.” “How do you know she’s new?”
Vesta
I’d seen images of hearts in jars.
Now I knew where they’d come from. Memories of a different time and place. Her temple perhaps.
Instead, he extended a hand. Tears streamed down my face as I stared at it, my sobs nearly choking me now.
“Rise,” he said softly. “Just as they always feared you would.”
He wasn’t looking at me like I was pathetic. He looked like someone who understood, intimately, what it was like to lose everything.
“Rise, Emilia,” he repeated, his hand a lifeline. “Remind them all.”
“You’re mine.” His voice was rough, deep. “Just as you are mine. Forever.”
As if I were the monster in the room and my sister hadn’t either beaten her or had her beaten and dragged to the Shadow Realm.
I imagine you did, because I found her hexing the gates.”
“He gave you his heart.
At that time, no one knew what struck you. Umbra demons were blamed, hired by someone.
The twin witches who had been born? They sacrificed them immediately. Kept
She might be a monster now, but she wasn’t pretending to be anything else.
It hadn’t been a message to me, it had been a warning to Nonna and the witches.
Once I crossed the circle, their magic locked me in.
“You are my match in every way. Anything that’s mine belongs to you. Never forget that.”
could exact vengeance
“Sursea.”
“Not quite so odd. After a recent visit from the goddess of death and her unique demon-werewolf companion,
Vesta
Something like alarm crossed her features
“I always knew you. And always will. Your soul calls to mine. It’s a feeling of coming home. Of peace. No magic can duplicate it.”
When Wrath spoke like that, it was hard to believe he didn’t love me.
“You seem relaxed when you’re creating, peaceful. Your mortal family did a lot wrong, but I feel like murdering them a little less when I see you looking at roasted garlic like it’s the most wondrous thing in our universe.”
There had to be a way to remove the spell without sacrificing my heart.
To prevent the ill effects of love or other strong emotions from taking root.
and yet my own heart ached at the realization that my husband could not allow himself to love me. He’d even gone so far as to magically bind himself.
“Why would a goddess require a blood offering?”
“Because that’s what the witches always do.”
Which meant the witches either knew that and had purposely misled their enemies, or they’d been misled themselves.
Mainly, if she happened to know where a certain commander had gone.
Yet something didn’t quite make sense.
“Why do our bodies need to be attached to enter the spirit realm?”
