Siren's Curse (The Sea King's Daughters Book 3) by Katee Robert

Author:Katee Robert [Robert, Katee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

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Abel spins on me and, for a moment, I’m sure he’ll resume the attack. Or just toss me back out into the depths and let the ocean do his dirty work. But he just glares and crosses his arms over his chest. “I’m listening.”

“What?”

“You have conditions. Name them. I’ll consider it.”

“How magnanimous of you.”

“You’re testing my patience.”

I laugh again. He could crush me with one of his giant tentacles and I’m drunk on the realization that he won’t. More, he can’t. He needs me to portal him to wherever he’s trying to go and it’s not like merfolk of the royal line drop into the ocean every day. There are maybe a dozen of us on the planet right now, though the number fluctuates a tiny amount as our father sends more of my sisters. Or at least that was the plan last anyone updated me. This monster needs me too much to kill me and the knowledge leaves me reckless. “You’re testing my ability to give a damn.”

“Lorelei.”

I think it’s the first time he’s ever said my name. No, I’m sure of it. I would have noticed if my entire body went tight at the sound the way it was doing now. I shake my head slowly, trying to clear it. “Don’t do that.”

His frustration disappears in an instant, his features smoothing out in a ripple I can almost see. Gone is anything lingeringly human about this creature, replaced by the cold mask that gave away nothing. “Your terms.”

It’s so close to what I demanded of him not too long ago that I nearly laugh aloud for a third time. I manage to swallow the sound. Something tells me that his patience truly is at an end and as suddenly confident as I am in my current position, there’s no reason to push my luck. I don’t have much of it left, after all. “Word has it that you’re a magic eater.”

“And?”

Neither confirmation nor denial, but he might as well have acknowledged it was the truth. You always did get it right, Amae. I push slowly to my feet, bracing myself when I sway a little despite my best intentions. “There’s a group of Deep Dwellers that have more than earned their deaths. You’ll help me deliver it.”

Abel let his arms drop and exhaled. “Revenge.”

“If you want to call it that.” I never thought I’d get the opportunity to become whole again, let alone punish the ones who’d done this to me in the first place. Now the chance to do both has landed in my lap and the only thing I have to do to earn it is portal one of the scariest monsters I’ve ever come across to somewhere else using a power I’ve had since I was born. Some of my sisters might caution to let it go and move on to the mission we were sent here for—to find a safe way for our people to travel back—but I’m no saint. I want to hurt

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