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“You fuckers owe me immensely,” I grumble, shouldering Knight out of the way.
The sin eater glares and flips me off with both hands.
“Who the fuck could have guessed he had a neutralizer on the payroll? He’s outed that, and we still won,” Knight says, swiping white-blond hair out of his eyes as he bites his lip.
“Why are you so obsessed with going to earth, anyway?” I hiss, clutching at my ribs. I’m pretty sure one is attempting to slam its way through my heart every time I take a damn breath.
“Does that mean you won’t be coming with us?” Wraith asks.
“I have something I have to do,” I tell them, sensing her panic. “Don’t leave without me.”
“Yeah, that’s what I thought,” Knight says, chuckling. “Tell the pretty fae we’ll see her soon.”
“You’ll not look twice at Ali,” I snarl.
“He’s so fucking fucked,” Wraith says, sounding a little too smug for my liking.
I should torture them both for the misery they put all of us through to win that fucking relic.
Unfortunately, that’ll have to wait until after I rescue Ali from her nightmares.
ChapterSix
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I’m dreaming.
I can recognize that, even if I don’t know how.
Faere is beautiful.
There’s nowhere as lush and healthy as the home of the fae. I recognize what’s going to happen next, and I fight my own mind in an attempt to wake up.
My sister and I play in the woods near our castle, but my favorite pixie will die soon. I’m a ghost with knowledge of the future but incapable of changing anything.
The entire scene plays out like it always does, because it’s already happened.
I’ve lived this nightmare a thousand times over.
My eyes sting with tears as I turn away. These events are set in stone, with many years passing since, but this day marked a clear turning point in my life.
If I was bitter, I’d call thebeforethegood times, and theafterwould be known aswhen my magic changed everything.
The scene morphs until we’re inside the Northern Castle.
My mother lectures a much younger version of myself about how my magic is dangerous. It’s borderline evil, and it’s against the goddess.
“...I may be queen, but I can’t protect you from the council if they vote and it doesn’t go in our favor. There’s no other option. No one can know about this.” My mother spins, pacing across the floor as she wrings her hands together.
My fists clench at my sides.
Couldn’t she have hugged me and told me she loved me? Even pretended to understand that I was trying to do the right thing?
The hollow ache that forms in my chest is extreme. I’ve lived this memory a thousand times. I should be able to control my reaction by now.
My people view emotion as weakness.
