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I killed Storm, leader of the Ordinaries, so that only leaves three other options.
Magdalena, leader of the Mages and ruler of Rathe U. Naw. Too weak. Her need for attention outweighs her wantfor chaos and destruction, and she has a son to think about. Not that his existence outweighs her position.
Odin, leader of the Monsters. Quiet. The silent leader in the corner who watches other people make decisions while obviously compiling his own opinion internally. I’d never really noticed him much until the King died.Suspect.
Agro speaks for the Fae. Don’t fucking like him or his god-complex. Definitely him, but he couldn’t do this alone.
And the Royal Monarch—us—rulers of all Dark Creatures that rule every nightmare you were told as a kid.
Who. The fuck. Out of these people would do that.Only two.Agro and Odin.
Someone kicks my leg and I look up to see Sinner glaring at me. “Get the fuck out of your head.”
“I can’t feel her anymore.” I let the words fall from my lips, even though I want to chew them up and spit them out. The room falls silent.
“Are you sure, Knight...” Legend breaks first. “Are you sure you didn’t just … finally manage to break the bond like you wanted?”
I didn’t want that. Or I did but that was before, that was in the very fucking beginning. Even when I hated her, when I took her and locked her away, when I thought she took someone I loved from me, and when she wanted to leave me to go to Ben, I still wanted her, I just didn't know it was me. I thought it was the bond forcing me to feel what I was.
I was fucking wrong.
It was me.
I did want her.
I do love her.
“He didn’t break the bond.” Creed grabs everyone's attention then, but his eyes don’t leave the door. “He completed it.” Finally his eyes move to mine. “I saw it in his head the day he let me in to share the truth about Temperance’s death with us all.”
“Knight?” Sinner’s tone is laced with more frustration than I’ve ever heard, so I look to him. He stares long and hard, a small frown etched across his face.
I didn’t tell my twin and I tell him everything. He’s hurt and he wants to know why. He deserves that. All my brothers do.
“I knew if people found out who she was it was over for her. They would never accept her as their Queen. There was only one thing I could give her in this life, so I gave it.”
“Her Ethos,” Legend breathes.
I nod, moving my eyes back to the door.
“Did you see it?” Sinner wonders.
My lip twitches despite everything. “She would have been fierce if she had half a chance to figure out what lived beneath her skin.”
A sharp ache jabs at my ribs and I inhale deeply, welcoming the pain.
Mother never showed a sign of pain, never got her black veins either.
Creed’s head snaps my way.
“We’re going to get out of this, and when we do, we will find who took from you, brother. They won’t get away with it. It’s fucking on as soon as we get the fuck out ofthis.”Legend gestures to the ceiling. Just as I’m about to open my mouth to answer, footsteps echo through the walls. Boots slap against puddles of water, and then a distinct sound of heels clinking across the concrete.
“Two of them. A woman. Magdalena?” Sinner whispers around the clunking sound of the rope hitting the ceiling.
“Nah. Can’t be. She’s a vindictive bitch, but she has too much to lose.”
“True,” Creed answers, just as the door handle shakes and everything else around me falls away, because whoever walks through this door has just signed their death warrant.
“Hello...brothers.”
