The Eternal Edge Of Aether (Elemental Awakening, Book 5) by Nicola Claire

Author:Nicola Claire [Claire, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nicola Claire Books
Published: 2017-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

I Smile

I storm into the ruined Council Chamber, noting the guards my mother has at her back. Mikkos and Leon are absent, but then they are councillors, and this get-together was arranged for only one member of the Council to attend.

My mother. The Queen. The woman who somehow released my father from his Alchemist chains and watched as he brutally harmed my former lover.

I checked before coming here; my father is again contained. Noah is in consultation with the newly appointed Alchemist leader, ensuring that the chains can not be removed again.

Not until the challenge at any rate.

But before I left his side, he confirmed they had been tampered with. My father has not spent the entire time since the challenge was made restrained.

Sonya has refused to speak to me. She has remained inside the tent with Melita. Upholding her side of the pact. There was no need to press for further information; I have enough already.

The only thing that concerns me is why I still feel like Melita is lying when all evidence points to her words being fact.

Noah informed me that Melita wears a brand on the inside of her thigh in the shape of a dragon. In the shape of the Petropoulos coat of arms. In the shape of my father’s ring.

He marked her. So I would know. He marked her so she would never forget.

I am furious. So angry that I am shaking.

I come to a stop across the brazier from my mother and attempt to get my ragged breathing under some semblance of control. She watches on patiently. Aware I am incensed with rage.

“Mitera,” I say.

“Yios,” she replies cooly. Son. I have not been her son for decades.

It takes everything in me to calm myself. I do not have my Thisavros to draw on, but I do have precious memories of her soft touch, her gentle words, her beautiful face.

The next time I speak, I am peaceful, and I am rewarded with a small show of surprise on my mother’s face.

“Thank you for agreeing to this meeting.” Two days too late.

“We must end this squabble,” she says.

“I have claimed Right of Rule, Mother. This is no mere squabble.”

“You can withdraw from the challenge. No one would doubt your allegiance then.”

She wishes to question my allegiance to Pyrkagia? She can do better than that.

“I will not withdraw. Father’s rule is at an end.”

“He is the rightful Rigas. He is a direct descendant of Aetheros. How can you question that?”

“How can you stand by and watch him perform atrocities?” I demand.

“What atrocities?”

“You know what.”

“No, son, I do not. We are Athanatos. We are Ekmetalleftis. You are thinking as a human would.”

“I will not back down.”

“Then I shall be forced to watch you die. Because you cannot win, Theodoros. His blood is stronger than yours.”

She is not wrong. But the knowledge changes nothing. My father cannot continue to rule. Pyrkagia will suffer for it. The world will suffer for it. I need her to understand.

“We have entered a dangerous time, Mother,” I say.

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