Heartless Foe (Shadowblood Souls Book 4) by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2023-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

I’m heading to breakfast when the hum of the drawbridge brings me to a window instead. By the time I reach the pane, a sedan has parked beyond the rising bridge with Toni stepping out from the driver’s seat.

My feet move of my own accord. Hunger vanishing, I hurry to the nearest doorway.

Toni has already marched most of the way to the villa when I reach the door. She slows and peers at me. “Do you need something?”

I have to swallow a wrenching laugh at the thought of all the things I need that she’d never offer me. But there may be one thing she can give me.

I raise my chin, looking her straight in the eyes. “Was he always this insane, or only after his wife and son died?”

Toni stiffens—briefly, but visibly enough that I know I’ve hit my mark. She pushes forward again with a motion for me to get out of her way. “I don’t have time for conversations like this.”

“You should,” I insist. “You’re working for him. Carrying out his crazy jobs. You don’t seem insane, so you’ve got to be able to realize how horribly he’s treating us.”

“Balthazar has bigger dreams. A higher purpose.” Toni cuts her gaze toward me again as she brushes past me. “You should remember that. Justice doesn’t come pain-free.”

This time I do let out a snort. I stride after her, keeping pace. “Oh, yeah? If it’s his justice, shouldn’t it be his pain?”

When Toni ignores me, I let my voice rise a little. “He can’t bring back the dead. You know that. And he’s adding to the death toll instead. He’s killing people who don’t deserve it, who never did anything wrong.”

“Then I suppose you’d better follow his orders well enough that you don’t need to be reminded of your mortality, don’t you think?”

My jaw clenches. “You know where that logic leads, don’t you? If it’s okay for him to torment and kill us for his justice, then obviously we’d be justified torturing and murdering people to get back at him for what he’s taken from us. Why does his justice matter more than anyone else’s?”

Toni spins with a flash of her eyes. “It’s not your business to question what he does here,” she snaps.

Then she sweeps through a doorway. The click of a lock sliding into place sounds in her wake.

My shoulders slump as the rush of my show of defiance ebbs. Did she listen to me at all?

Maybe it was stupid to even try. But I know Matteo doesn’t give a shit what happens to us as long as he can run his experiments and gather his data.

Toni at least has shown glimmers of normal emotional reactions. She doesn’t like having her conscience nudged.

I summon as much of yesterday’s determination as I can and trudge toward the kitchen. Griffin emerges when I’m only a few feet away.

He aims a gentle smile at me with a tip of his head. “I have some good news—and it looks like you could use it.

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