Taste My Wrath (The Iron Fae Book 1) by Debbie Cassidy

Author:Debbie Cassidy [Cassidy, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

17

The sky was gray with predawn light when I stepped into the guard room. The place was deserted and silent. It looked like I was the only one from this sector who’d decided to volunteer.

Taking a deep breath, I knocked on Magnus’s office door. There was a beat of silence and then his gruff voice calling for me to enter.

He didn’t look surprised to see me, but his mouth turned down slightly. “Danika…” There was so much pent-up emotion in the way he said my name. “You don’t have to do this.”

“I want to. I have to.”

His gaze heated, and for a moment, I thought he’d bridge the distance between us and kiss me. I half-hoped he would. My knees were wobbly with terror at what I was about to do despite the conviction heating my chest.

But kisses were off the table.

Instead, he leveled his gaze on me. “The shining ones won’t be taking any prisoners,” he warned.

“Neither will I.”

His eyes narrowed. “You would kill them?”

There was no hesitation in my mind. “Yes.”

He stepped around his desk and then leaned back against it with his arms crossed over his chest. “All this to see your sister?”

There was more to the question. He was probing like he knew there was more and needed me to confirm it. My pulse sped up. Was he like me and Baba? Did he know what the shining ones were doing to us? Only one way to find out.

“No. All this to get her out.”

I blurted the words and waited for the reprimand even though my gut told me it wouldn’t come. His chest rose and fell faster with shallow breaths as our gazes remained locked. Something passed between us, an understanding, a camaraderie, and my suspicions were confirmed.

We were the same, and it was time to cut the crap.

He nodded slowly, as if agreeing with my unvoiced thoughts. “There is nowhere to go, Danika.”

I took a step toward him. “How long have you seen them for the monsters they are?”

“Forever. As long as I can recall. Some of us aren’t affected by their power, or whatever it is they’re doing to make the population compliant.”

He didn’t know? “It’s the water. There’s something in the water that makes people compliant.”

He pressed his lips together. “Of course there is.”

“But it doesn’t affect us.”

“No. We’re just forced to fake it.” He pushed away from the desk and cupped my shoulders. “I understand how you feel, the rage, the need to act, but this won’t save your sister. Once you’re inside the Keep, there is no way out. And even if by some miracle you make it out, there is nowhere to run. No way to fight them.”

But he didn’t know the whole truth. “What if there was? What if there was something in the Keep that could be used against them. A weapon.”

He went very still. “A weapon? What kind of weapon?”

“One that could turn the tide against them. One we could use to protect ourselves.”

“How do you know this?”

I pulled away from him and handed him the slip with my name on it.

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