King of Shadows: A deliciously dark villain romance (The Masks of Under Book 2) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

Author:Kathryn Ann Kingsley [Kingsley, Kathryn Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Second Sky
Published: 2024-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Edu reached out his hand and gently placed it atop the mass of red curls that tumbled down from the girl’s head. Evelyn—or Evie, as she preferred to be called—was on the path to a quick recovery.

The result of the torture was slowly mending. Evie had color in her skin and life to her bright yellow eyes. She was inhaling a bowl of soup, happily tearing off chunks of bread and dipping them into the stew. She was talking to him in between bites, even though she knew he could not answer. Ylena was not present. But it seemed not to deter her in the slightest.

“Did you have a nice day?” Evie’s cheery tone was unflinching.

Edu nodded. Yes, he did, insomuch as he was able. Insomuch as he was preoccupied with thoughts of the bastard warlock and his schemes. He ended his nod with a slight shrug, and she giggled.

“I know, I know. You’re a king, you probably don’t have nice days. Just a matter of degrees, huh?” The girl was a quick study of his silent mannerisms, reading his small motions and his gestures better than many who had spent years in his presence.

He wished he could say he was having a beautiful day now. Now that he was back in his home. With her.

Edu loved to play with her fiery red curls. He twirled some around his finger and watched them bounce back. She did not seem to mind in the slightest. Indeed, her features bloomed in a cozy and excited smile each time he did, so he felt no need to stop.

His home was titled the House of Flames, and yet it had not seen fit to collect someone with a persona like hers. How she Fell to the House of Words was a crime against the nature of this world. Maverick could not see the value in someone with an un-killable heart like hers.

Edu’s gaze traveled to the girl’s arm. It had healed. The sight of Aon’s torture turned his stomach in disgust. As if draining Evie’s power from her body via machine was not enough—to then stitch the girl’s marks back on? Twisting her power to his own whim and grant it to her anew, in his own making? Disgusting. And to what end?

Edu had never seen anything like it. He had never been awake during Aon’s reign, not once in the past fifteen hundred years. Since the day the Great War ended, when Aon surrendered after realizing what he had done and doomed the world.

Now in Aon’s hunger to save it, he seemed just as blind to—or worse, just as joyful in—the suffering he would paint to see it done.

Worst yet, Aon’s machine that Evie had described to him had worked. The marks on her arm remained, in their dull purple color, as Aon had placed them there. He had managed to drain the girl of her gifts and restore them to her in his own design.

It was a crime against nature. A crime against Under.

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