Empire of Flame and Thorns by Marion Blackwood

Author:Marion Blackwood [Blackwood, Marion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Dagger Publishing
Published: 2024-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Ijerk awake as a loud bang echoes through my room. Sitting bolt upright, I throw myself out of bed and twist the faelights to turn them on right as another crash sounds.

Light floods my room.

For one single second, I can’t understand what it is that I’m looking at.

There is a giant hole in the middle of my wooden door. As if someone has punched through it. Or kicked through it.

Then a boot crashes through the door, and reality slams back into me.

Wooden splinters fly through the air as the entire middle part of the door shatters.

Throwing myself across the room, I dive towards the knife on my dresser right as two men burst through the hole in the door.

Tommen flashes me a vicious smile as he and Jeb straighten inside my room. “Payback time, bitch.”

I don’t even have time to scream for help before they launch themselves at me.

Panic crackles through my veins.

Leaping back, I slash my knife in front of me. It forces them to stop their attack long enough for me to land. My back hits the dresser with a thud, making the wood rattle. I cast a panicked glance around the room, trying to figure out how to escape. But I barely manage to scan half of the room before Tommen lunges at me again.

His fist speeds towards my face. I duck it and slash at his chest. A cry of pain rips from his throat as my knife grazes part of his chest, drawing a thin line of blood.

Fury burns in his eyes.

I jump back as he aims another punch at my head. But my back slams into something else.

Arms reach around me from behind, trying to trap me. Jeb’s harsh breath hits the back of my neck. With panic blaring inside my skull, I stomp my heel down towards his foot. He’s wearing boots, and I’m barefoot, but it manages to cause enough pain for him to lose his grip on me. I dive away right before Tommen can slam his fist into my stomach.

Rolling across the floor, I twist around and swipe at their hamstrings.

Jeb curses as my knife nicks the side of his thigh.

I yank my blade back, aiming another strike.

Pain shoots up my arm as Tommen’s boot connects with my wrist.

The knife flies from my grip. It hits the wall to my left and bounces down on the floor in a clattering of metal. I gasp as I jerk back, narrowly avoiding a strike to my ribs.

Across the room, Jeb snatches up my knife while Tommen throws himself at me. I leap sideways, rolling over my bed. The rumpled sheets tangle around my ankles, and I have to kick them away when I hit the floor.

Metal glints.

On instinct, I yank up an arm to block it.

Pain explodes through my forearm as the knife cuts a deep slash right across it.

I cry out in shock and pain, but I don’t even have time to block out those emotions, because Tommen aims a kick at me from the other side.

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