The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas

Author:Sherry Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

BEING A BIRD GAVE IOLANTHE the freedom to look anywhere she liked. What she found out was that everyone watched them. Him.

At first she put it down to his rank and his attire—his deep-blue overrobe, heavily embroidered with silver thread, was magnificent. But this was an occasion that overflowed with magnificent clothes on men and women of superior rank. And the way they looked at him, footmen and prime minister, serving maids and baronesses alike, it was as if he’d cast a spell on them.

He had Presence.

The moment he stepped off his chariot, it was obvious that he was no ordinary adolescent. He was rude and inaccessible, but he exuded an enigmatic charisma that could not be ignored.

He would never convince Atlantis—or anyone for that matter—to take him lightly.

Perhaps he knew that. His heart pounded next to her—he’d put her inside his overrobe for the trip to the Inquisitory. The tunic he wore beneath the overrobe was of very fine silk, redolent of the herbs with which it had been stored, warm with the heat of his body.

She burrowed deeper against him.

“I will keep you safe,” he murmured.

He meant it.

As long as he was safe, she was safe.

But how long would he remain safe?

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