Redemption (The Arotas Trilogy #3) by Amy Miles

Author:Amy Miles
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Amy Miles Books
Published: 2013-07-17T04:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

A fire begins in Roseline’s mind, scorching and all consuming. She retracts her teeth from Enael’s artery, letting him drop limply to the ground. His skull connects with the packed dirt with a low thud. His head rolls to the side as his eyes fall closed, sinking into unconsciousness.

Doubling over, she presses her palms to the sides of her head, screaming. The blood fuses with her veins, sealing in the damning poison. Roseline teeters on the edge of euphoria and agony as she sinks to the ground. She doesn’t hear her name being called until Malachi is right beside her. Her cry cuts off when he grabs her hands, forcing them to her sides in a vise-like grip. “What have you done?”

“Had to…get away.” She falls limp against his side, moaning as heat spirals through her body. She can already feel everything shifting, the lengthening of her muscles and strengthening of her bones. She is changing. “Too late.”

“No!” Malachi shouts, holding her with one arm as he bites into his sleeve and tears the fabric free. He presses his arm to her lips but she turns away.

“Full.”

“Drink!” He shoves his wrist at her again, but her eyes roll up into the back of her head. Darkness swirls around her, mingled with pain and fire.

“Wake up, Roseline!”

A rough crack to her temple breaks through the haze. She rears up at him with her teeth bared. He grabs the back of her head and impales her teeth onto his wrist.

Cleansing blood gushes down her throat. She sucks greedily as the pain begins to fade. Malachi gasps as she wrenches his arm around, spilling both of them to the floor. Roseline writhes on top of him, straddling his waist as she digs deeper into his flesh, nearly tearing through his arm.

“Roseline, stop! There isn’t much time.”

A low growl rises from her chest, fire blazing in her eyes. She won’t let go. Not now that the pain is receding and Lucien’s blood has begun to be caged within her cells, sealing out his damning poison.

Roseline watches as Malachi’s expression shifts toward the boy but she doesn’t relent. In the span of a heartbeat, Malachi draws a long, silver blade from a sheath at his hip and buries it into Enael’s chest. Roseline cries out, releasing her hold on Malachi’s arm as she stares at the blood pouring from Enael’s chest.

The dagger stands upright, protruding from his chest. The sound of his blood leaking from his heart chills her as she flings herself away from Malachi, clawing at Enael with shaky hands. “What have you done? He was only a boy.”

“What I must,” Malachi says, wiping the blade on his pants before tucking it away. He rises, ripping at his shredded sleeve and tying it as a tourniquet around his wrist. He uses his teeth to tighten it. “Trust me, this was far faster than what I was sent to do to him.”

Roseline lashes out at him with the intent of swiping her nails across his face.

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