Secrets of Graves and Gold by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2024-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Four

Ivy

At the sight of the blades flashing in the late-afternoon light, my body goes rigid. My men all whip around to face the intruders.

The burly guy at the front of the group said they were here to arrest us, but none of them wear any kind of uniform.

Rheave’s expression twitches, and he points a finger at one of the men flanking the apparent leader.

I think he’s saying that one’s a daimon. These are Order of the Wild members, come to exert their ill-gotten authority over us.

How did they find us? How much do they know?

Stavros tucks his prosthetic slightly out of view, his posture drawing up with his full military authority. Every muscle in his massive frame is braced to spring into action.

In spite of the precarious situation we’ve found ourselves in, a pang of gratitude fills me at the sight of him so steady after his bloody collapse this morning.

I didn’t know if I’d ever see him standing again.

“Arrested for what?” he demands.

My magic shudders through my chest in anticipation of their answer. I could tear straight through them all.

But how will I balance out those consequences? Uncertainty scatters my thoughts, which were already a bit dizzy from everything I pulled off this morning.

The lead Order member opens his mouth to speak, but he hesitates at the creak of the steps behind him. He and his colleagues ease to the side so two more intruders can push into the cramped room.

The first to enter is an even beefier man so vacant-eyed I’m expecting Rheave’s gesture toward him before it happens. Then a tall figure strides in with a haughty, authoritarian air that has me tensing up before my eyes lock on his face.

Julita gasps, her presence flinching in the back of my skull. It can’t— Oh, gods help us. Ivy, that’s Borys.

My stance stiffens even more. Borys, her brother—the one who introduced my ghostly friend to scourge sorcery by making her the subject of his sadistic experiments as a child. The brother who vanished on his way to enter Sovereign College three years ago and who she’d hoped was dead.

As he considers us with his lips curling into a smirk, the resemblance jumps out at me. He has the same chestnut waves as the woman I first saw dying in an alley, just long enough to tuck behind his ears. The same porcelain complexion, though his features strike me as sharper than I think Julita’s were.

“So,” he says in an arch voice that’s like a harder, masculine echo of Julita’s typical sultry tone, “this is the company my little sister has been keeping lately, is it? It’s a shame Julita couldn’t be here herself.”

If only he knew.

Julita chokes back what sounds like a wail, her presence twitching and trembling, rattling my thoughts even more. Oh, no. Oh, fuck. We have to get out of here.

I don’t know how justified her terror is. She hasn’t seen her brother in three years. It sounded as if he hadn’t managed to harm

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