Black Dawn by Mallory McCartney

Author:Mallory McCartney [McCartney, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621356158
Publisher: Clean Reads
Published: 2017-02-14T07:00:00+00:00

Nyx had to choke on her shock and swallow her bitterness in one fell swoop. The life that bustled around her was Adair’s doing. It was like entering a beehive made of stone. The soldiers surrounded her as they maneuvered through the different tunnels and caverns, onlookers stopping to get a clear look at her. Visitors are slim when your King uses all his energy to destroy life. Yet here was a whole colony at his disposal.

Fire grew in her, begging to be released. By fire and flame, she wanted to tear his throat out for doing this to their world. Only the approved, the powerful, sided with Adair. She wanted to be free, but her reality was that she would always be shackled. She just had the freedom to choose how. The group trudged up a winding staircase until they were outside an arched door, and as the soldier knocked three times, Nyx willed herself to have the strength to do this. As the door swung open, she was pulled inside to face her monster.

Adair sat at a mahogany desk, bookcases littering the room, a fireplace with glowing embers behind him. He quickly glanced up but did a double-take when his intelligent eyes landed on her. He was a shadow of a person. Gaunt, pale skin. Black hair flattened. His features could have been handsome once, but now…now they seemed to contort with anger. He was just a man—an evil man, nothing more.

The leader stepped forward and said, “My Highness, this rebel has requested a presence with you regarding…”

“Regarding the return of the Fae line,” Nyx cut the soldier off with a steely voice. She stared right back into those endless eyes as Adair stood up and prowled toward her. They were face to face, but she remained impassive as he whispered, his breath hot against her skin, “What did you just say?”

“Emory Fae is alive, and I can give her to you. In exchange, of course, for my peoples’ freedom, including the hostages you hold here.”

Nyx didn’t wait for him to laugh or kill her. She charged into his mind, throwing every moment from the last forty-eight hours at him. Emory the leading star in all of them. The room grew silent and colder, and Adair didn’t break his stare as he briskly ordered his men out. Nyx’s skin crawled with anticipation, waiting for him to crack and attack her at any moment. Instead he circled her, taking her all in, and Nyx had never felt more stripped bare in her life. He stopped to face her once again, stroking her cheek. “And how do you exist? A telekinetic of your ability should be with me, not roaming freely as a rebel.”

He looked amused—the most nightmarish expression she had ever seen. She swallowed once and made sure every word was crystal clear, “I came from the Academy, your majesty. Do we have an agreement or not? Emory, for our freedom.”

Now it was his turn to laugh, and it turned her blood cold.

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