Before the Raging Lion (Mortality Book 4) by Everly Frost

Author:Everly Frost [Frost, Everly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ever Realm Books
Published: 2017-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

Death

Chapter Sixteen

I WAS numb. So numb I didn’t even ask the name of the other girl. President Vale walked me to my room and the only thing I said was, “Please, get Michael.”

President Vale was pale, her back stiff. “I’m sorry, Ava. I did all of this to save mortals, not kill them. I’ll send Michael and Ember right away.”

Within moments of entering the room, Aaron and another Evereacher, along with two Seversandian warriors, took up guard outside it—one on each side of the door and two at the window.

President Vale ordered them. “Don’t let Ava leave this room without one of my guards.” She gave Aaron a threatening look while she spoke. It was plain she didn’t trust Olander’s people for one second.

After she left, Aaron dropped my backpack beside me. “Here are your medical supplies. In case you need them.”

I almost laughed. Bandages couldn’t save my life right then. He stared at me for a moment, and I was grateful when he returned to his post at the door.

The room was large and airy with wide windows to the left looking across the corridor and out to a full view of the tree in the distance. A small table and two chairs took up the space beneath the window and a bed rested against the far right corner. The room was much too beautiful to be my prison, my last place of rest. A painting on the opposite wall took my breath away.

It was a bright red flower with a golden scorpion on it.

I’d seen that image when they first gave me nectar. I’d seen the flower bloom and the scorpion come to life, ready to strike. But what good was that vision to me now?

On each side of the painting at about eye height on the wall, were two horizontal gold loops. They looked like the kind of thing I’d hang clothing on, except that loops were closed. I removed my white cloak and folded it on the bed instead.

I huddled in a chair. For the first time since Josh died, I was truly lost. I rocked in a sea of fear and panic. If I revealed to Olander that Seversand never had a weapon—that I was the only one—he’d slaughter them.

He’d strike at Starsgard too. Michael had opened the grid and it wouldn’t take Olander long to start asking questions about how that happened, how to get inside Starsgard.

But if I didn’t tell him, I was going to die.

The other girl would too, even though she wasn’t a threat. I drew my knees to my chest and pressed my eyes to them, trying to dislodge the image of all the brass coffins buried beneath the ground. I had to find another way. I had to find a way to save all of us without triggering a slaughter.

The only way to stop another war was to escape to Starsgard. The Starsgardians alone had proven they wouldn’t wage war against another country. They’d proven they would never use my mortality to make weapons.

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