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I craned my neck to look over my shoulder, instinctivelystretching my wings.
All four of them.
Holy fuck.
The action caused another searing pain to whiten my vision, and I had to reach out and clutch onto Nakoa.
Each wing was long as I was tall. Feathers such a deep black they seemed to absorb the light instead of reflecting it.
Phaedra had gone sheet white.
Her gaze frantically bounced between us, shaking her head.
“This is… Wrong…All wrong…”
Before we could reply, she gripped our arms, and darkness consumed us.
Chapter
Thirty-Five
NAKOA
Phaedrafoldedus directly back to our room and left without another word. Mareina crawled onto the bed face down and winced at the sight of all the blood drenching her fighting leathers from where herfourwings had burst out of her back. They were perhaps the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen… Though I’d never seen such a thing in real life. Only in sculptures, paintings, and religious texts…
And it made the possibility of who the hell Mareina’s birth parents could be all the more intriguing. Unfortunately, now was not the time to try and find out. Nor could my mind bother to focus on that fact. I stared down at my hands in disbelief. They were gone… Mysoulboundmarks. They’d been there one moment, breathtakingly beautiful, and then gone the next.
Anger fisted my chest. Mareina hadn’t given me a true vow. She’d only given a vow to help me rule our Kingdom. Nothing more. The bond was still unfulfilled. My eyes shifted from where I was scowling down at my hands to where Mareina was sprawled out on the bed.
Blood drenched her back from where her wings had burst from her back. Her wings trembled as if still throbbing in pain. The sight softened my anger. And the fact that Mors’ had marked her.
The memory of my vision of Mareina standing in the underworld beside thePharalakireturned.
Please, Akash… No. How could I rule this Kingdom without my lohane thili.?
Guilt twisted in my gut at how much I had manipulated her…
Still, I shoved it away. I would not regret doing whatever it took to liberate my people.
I knelt beside the bed where Mareina’s head was facing. Her face pale with shock and exhaustion.
I forced my voice into something neutral.
“How are you feeling?”
Her throat worked as her eyes shifted to mine. Her voice was dry and hollow.
“Like a new woman.”
I could only manage a frown.
“I can… go down to the tavern and see if they have any ice?”
Mareina gave a scant shake of her head.
“Let’s not push our luck. I half expected her to throw us out of here.”
So did I.
