Harmony of Fire by Brian Feehan

Author:Brian Feehan [Feehan, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2022-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

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Alice watched Owen as he walked away. Her anger was smashing and tearing at her self-control. How dare he.

How dare a man so closed to the world still refuse to see the truth. With his edges, soft-spoken words and storming eyes, and yet completely an asshole. Alice thought she had seen more within him. There had been moments when it was as if she thought she knew what he was. How he was. A man with a code, doing his best to hold down the beast he was born to be. And yet. He refuses to see the truth, and still he has the audacity to call me blind.

Bright lights lit the room, attacking her vision in a sudden and unexpected assault.

Alice slammed her eyes closed, turning her head to the wall and covering her face. After so long in the low light, it was like tiny daggers slicing into her brain. She didn’t hear the door close after him, nor could she see the outline of him leave.

“Asshole!”

Alice swore again as she fought back the pain and slowly adjusted to the light. She had to start out small, her mind and senses needing time to adjust to the new onslaught. She breathed in and breathed out.

“Oh, buddy, I am going to hurt you for that. Only a coward hits and runs away.” Each word was a promise as her eyes adjusted.

Alice pried her arms away from her face, forcing her eyes to take in the new light. It burned, and she was forced to squint, but she didn’t retreat. Pain was a part of who she was, and she wouldn’t back down now. Particularly when she was so, so pissed off.

With effort and a touch of time, she could see down the length of the wall all the way to the large double doors. Surprise coursed through her as she made out two ornate carvings of angels flying up toward the ceiling on the back of either door. A detail she had never been able to see properly until now.

Her gaze moved slowly toward the center of the room, where the stronger light was coming from. Her anger faded as she took in the room she had been living in for weeks but had yet to really see. Alice was dumbfounded, completely and utterly perplexed as she looked on with amazement.

She wasn’t in a darkened cellar, wasn’t in a medieval prison. Somehow without her even suspecting, she was chained to a blackened wall within a ballroom the size of a cathedral.

A sound escaped her lips as her eyes roamed over beautiful pearl-white-and-gold inlay, all created in a sea of care and precision.

The gigantic space wouldn’t have been out of place in a royal castle and was unlike anything Alice had ever seen.

The ceiling reached heavenward, climbing twenty or more feet. Bright chandeliers shone with gold, hanging with massively weighted gems. Each a work of art, as the jewels caught the light, sparkling while sending tiny colors to dance this way and that.

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