What Lurks Between the Fates (Of Flesh & Bone) by Harper L. Woods

Author:Harper L. Woods [Woods, Harper L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781399711760
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2023-03-27T18:30:00+00:00

20

Estrella

My robe swished against the stone floor, the blue jarring against the sheer white of it as Malachi forcibly guided me through the halls. We passed countless numbers of those statues, the faces I couldn’t unsee staring back at me now that I knew what they were.

Victims of Mab’s conquest and thirst for power.

Countless eyes peered down at me, gazing at my only half-hidden skin. The sear of Malachi’s palm against the space between my neck and shoulder felt like a brand, a stain upon my soul. Caldris’s rage thrummed down the thread between us; the reaction delayed.

I’d felt him go away, felt his end of our thread of fate get farther and farther from me with the passage of time the day before. My only comfort came when I’d finally risen from a night of tossing and turning, my sense of him growing closer once again.

“I can walk on my own,” I snapped, attempting to shrug off his hold.

Nila trailed behind us, summoned to join the impromptu journey. I’d barely risen out of bed at the crack of dawn, tossing my robe over my thin, silken nightgown, when Malachi barged through the door and demanded I come immediately.

“Then hurry it up, or I will carry you. I think I’ll enjoy your ass in my face far more than you will,” he returned.

I turned to glare at him, a brutal growl rumbling through my throat.

“Such a feral little mouse,” he said, a grin lighting his face as he shoved me forward once more.

That hand would make a beautiful trophy, and I almost wished he hadn’t smelled the blood of the other male’s tongue and heart tucked under my bed days prior.

I could have had a nice collection by the time Caldris and I killed everyone on our list. I’d already decided that he needed to die, but I debated which parts of him I would keep and which parts I would feed to the cwn annwn when given the chance.

The doors he stopped me in front of were different. The light shone through the carved metal without any wood to ground it. Snakes wound themselves through them, inky tendrils of darkness blending alongside them. Malachi reached over my head and pushed them open.

We stepped into an anteroom. Light poured in through the sole window that occupied most of a wall. It glinted off the muted red and gold tones spread throughout. Malachi stepped around me and grasped the knocker for the inner door.

“Come in,” Mab called, her voice muffled behind the door.

Malachi pushed it open, stepping into the room first before he looked back at me and waited expectantly. I took a single step forward, pausing when I laid eyes upon the ornate bedframe carved from solid gold on the back wall. A thin veil of fabric hung in a circle around it, forming a canopy of shimmering gray.

Mab’s bath was a massive square set into the floor itself. It was filled with water, the entire surface covered in rose petals as she lounged against the wall of it.

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