Snow: A Naughty Fairytale Series (The Happily Never After Series Book 1) by Plum Pascal & H.P. Mallory

Author:Plum Pascal & H.P. Mallory
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

Malvolo

Damn her. Damn her straight to Avernus. Though I can’t see it, I can sense the sun creeping over the eastern horizon. The witchling has cost me a full night’s sleep.

This whole business is doomed to failure. If Tenebris doesn’t want to be found, it doesn’t matter if Mim and the others pour out a veritable ocean of magic. She’ll remain hidden until the end of time, if that’s what she desires.

At least, that’s what you keep rationalizing to yourself, I think.

Regardless, someone needs to stay behind to watch over Reve. He’s as defenseless as a babe and dragging him out would only put him in more danger.

But it sounds like a flimsy excuse, even to me. Though Herrick and I are nowhere as skilled in sorcery as Reve, we’re decent with wards and potions. There are defenses we could put in place that would protect him during an extended journey.

“You had to be a good man once, Malvolo. Herrick wouldn’t love you if you weren’t. You could be that man again, if you didn’t hold onto your bitterness like a stubborn child.”

I gnash my teeth. Insolent witch! What in the name of Avernus does she know about suffering? She thinks she suffered in her laughably abbreviated existence. She doesn’t know the half of what we’ve endured! And the trials we endured were the reason she’s even alive! I have a right to be bitter.

So, why am I spinning in furious circles, trying to figure out if she’s right? Cowardice is an appellation I’ve shunned for over a century.

General Malvolo of the Southern Dragon Clan runs from nothing and no one!

At least... he didn’t used to.

What if she’s right about everything? Would inaction truly end Herrick’s life?

It’s a thought I can’t stand. I’ll trade everything in my horde, my other wing, even my life to preserve Herrick and Reve.

With regard to preserving Herrick, it’s not as though Herrick isn’t strong and capable. He wouldn’t have survived the war if such were true. But there’s a Gryphus huntsman after Neva which means there’s a Gryphus huntsman after Herrick.

They are both walking targets.

With a snarl, I push up from the floor of my cave and stalk toward the exit. Herrick will get himself killed trying to protect her. Someone has to stop the fool from perishing in an act of lethal gallantry. And if he won’t stop trying to protect her (which it appears he won’t), someone has to protect him.

Fucking fuck.

I’m greeted by the infuriatingly chipper call of a whippoorwill as I emerge from the mines. The sky is a stunning lapis lazuli, with only the barest of clouds to taint the perfection of the day. The frost has melted away, leaving the ground soft. The wind is still cool, but bearable. It’s a good day for a journey.

I lope down into the valley, convinced I’m already too late. For all I know, they stole away in the night and are halfway to wherever the hell they’re going by now. The

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