The Reckoning: An Eden Rites novel by Blake Ironmore

Author:Blake Ironmore [Ironmore, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Ironmore
Published: 2022-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

Closing the door firmly behind me, I gritted my teeth and didn’t bother to spare a glance at the Muses clustered in the living room, staring at me, apparently judging the decision I had made to spare Envy the truth and the shame that went along with it. I had nothing to say to them—nothing that would make sense, anyway. My chest constricted as I thought about the look on her face, at the rejection screaming within her posture. She didn’t want me. The acknowledgment tightened my throat and made my guts clench. Envy didn’t want me. The Muses could think what they wanted. Their opinion of me didn’t matter, anyway.

All the years chained up in Hell, I'd believed that it was my father who had put me there, convincing myself that I had deserved my fate and my punishment. I clenched my fists, needing to hit something, pulverize stone into nothing more than dust. All these years and it had been my brother—my very own brother, whom I had trusted, that had allowed Malachi to butcher my wings every day in that pit. Grinding my teeth, I left the apartment and stormed off to the apartment next door that I was to share with Haven. I didn’t like it. In fact, I despised the fact that I would be that far away from Envy. It was a stupid brick wall, yet it might as well have been mountains.

Palming the back of my neck, I tried to rub away the rage that was simmering away in my veins at the circumstances that had led me to this very moment. I grasped the door handle to the apartment and realized that I needed something more.

Retreating to the rooftop, I jumped up to the same ledge I had first seen Envy stood upon. My wings flared around me. The iridescent violet shimmer flickering along the darkness of my fallen soul. Unbreakable. My soul blackened, but not broken. Eve’s love had kept me whole, unbound, and unbroken in that hellhole. Her love… had saved me, made me worthy of being saved. What was I if the love of my life hated me?

My father had plucked me from Hell. He had saved me because even their agreement couldn’t stand up to the scrutiny of my punishment. My chest ached; I rubbed at the spot above my heart that intensified as I pictured Envy huddled in that bed. Her agony at being responsible for humanity’s downfall was what I had been trying to avoid. She didn’t deserve to carry the weight of this task upon her shoulders. Her pain had cut me open just as deeply as a sword. I would much rather have preferred the blade than the anguish so bare for all to see shining through her eyes. Gritting my teeth, I flared my wings, the muscles in my back contracting with the movement, and jumped.

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