Breaking Stars (Book 2) by Jenna Van Vleet

Author:Jenna Van Vleet
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Writer's Edge Publishing
Published: 2014-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Nolen had loved Kindle dearly when they were children. She was always the kind of girl who needed protecting, and who better to defend her than her big brother. Someone was always stealing her dolly or pulling her pig tails, and he was never far away to deliver a sound thrashing to any villain.

The past years had been filled with happy memories of his sister, whom he loved so sweetly, but the years changed both of them, and she harbored the one key that kept him from glory.

He woke in the early hours of morning to a cold hearth and chilly room, forcing him to light his own fire with the Mage’s Element. But the room was still cold as the sun peeked over the horizon. He plotted as he watched the flames lick the dried wood, snapping as sap burst within. He would need to dangle something Kindle wanted before her. She had always wanted a husband, a family, and a little cottage with a barn near a river. He could provide all of those for her if she would trade the Silex’s location. Or maybe she wanted power. She could have the Mage once Nolen was finished with him, and when his power dried up, she could have another to put in the Castrofax. Was it knowledge she craved? He could bequeath Madison Library in Jaden to her or make her Head Librarian.

He was surprised when his door opened, and Kindle stepped in, wrapped in heavy furs and shod in boots. He had dressed but still sat bundled before the fire. This far from the dirty air of the City, his indigestion was not giving him problems.

“Mage Gabriel is still in the hall,” she said in a sharp tone.

“I know.”

“Will you free him? He is in pain.”

“He knows how to handle pain.”

“You are not the brother I once knew, Nolen. The City has made you vicious.”

He stood. “I was always vicious; you were just too sweet to see. If anything, the City has made me stronger.”

“What reason do you have to hurt a man you have already broken?”

He shrugged a shoulder. “Is breakfast ready?”

“I am going to cut him loose.” She turned for the door.

“If you tell me where the Silex is, I will do it for you.” She slipped out of the room anyway. “Do not, Kindle! I will make it worse for him.”

She stepped back into view. “This is my home, brother. You will not threaten me within it.”

“I make no threat against you. But I will hurt him.”

She pursed her lips. “If you cut him loose now, I will consider it an investment towards your information.”

The Mage was where he left him, but this time he was draped in blankets and kneeling on more. It irritated him that anyone would take pity on the Mage. His head hung low as he leaned forward, and the closer Nolen got, the more he saw the man quiver. The longer a person spent in the position, the more pain it created.

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