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Then he opens his mouth and pours the contents of the vial on his tongue.
And swallows.
I scream his name.
Drop to my knees.
My heart discarded on the floor.
Chapter23
Valtu
My head explodes in pain, shrapnel stabbing my temples and I press my hands over my eyes, as if they’re going to start leaking out of my head.
A certain pain I’ve only felt once before.
Oh fuck.
I go still, my breathing ragged and adrenaline pumping through me, and there’s a taste of bitter floral in my mouth, violets and dandelion greens, and I instantly know what I’ve done. The sense of dizziness, of emptiness, of having your brain scooped out, is prominent.
I’ve used the spell of erasure again.
Why the hell would I do that again?
I hear a sniff and I slowly take my hands off my face.
There’s a girl kneeling in front of me, dressed in a bathrobe.
She’s bawling, like an animal in pain, tears flooding her face.
The air smells like oud and salt.
Something is very wrong here.
It’s the girl that’s wrong.
Her head snaps up and she stares at me and I realize I’m staring into the eyes of a witch, her power brimming off of her.
I don’t need an explanation.
She’s done something to me.
I launch myself at her, grabbing her by the throat and forcing her on her back.
She yelps and tries to scream and I have my fingers wrapped around her neck, squeezing harder and harder as I bear down on her.
“Who are you?” I growl, feeling her cartilage breaking under my grip.
Her hands are at mine, trying to pry my fingers off, and she looks scared more than anything. A wild kind of fear that kicks more adrenaline into my system. She could be unpredictable.
And she is, because she suddenly does something I didn’t expect her to.
She goes limp. Relaxes completely. Stops fighting me.
But she’s not dead, nor dying. Not yet.
Her eyes, a brilliant green, stop flashing and go hazy, her expression as if she’s resigning herself to this fate.
