Lucero by Maya Motayne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Maya Motayne
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Homecoming
Alfie couldn’t breathe.
With his father’s body at his feet and Dezmin standing before him, he
felt as if his lungs had been plucked from his chest.
But the being standing here wasn’t Dezmin. It was wearing Dezmin’s
body, true, but inside was Sombra—like rancid wine poured into a beautiful
bottle.
Alfie’s brother looked the same but different—he looked wrong. His
features were sharpened, and he even looked taller, as if the god were
stretching him from inside the same way you broke in a pair of shoes or
flexed your fingers in a new pair of gloves. Was Dezmin in pain from this
physical contortion? It made Alfie feel sick to his stomach.
How could this be happening?
Only six months before, he and Finn had battled the god of darkness
and, with the help of a prisoner named Xiomara, they’d banished Sombra to
the same dark void that Dezmin had been lost to. Afterward they’d returned
the god’s stone arms safely to the vault and moved forward with their lives.
Yet now here Sombra stood, on the very dais where Alfie and Princess
Vesper had just taken their betrothal vows. A layer of flower petals still
dusted the floor. Lit candles floated in the air, bathing the vast ballroom in
soft light.
Sombra looked as if he’d just arrived to his own surprise party.
Alfie felt utterly alone as he faced this worst possible incarnation of his
brother, his best friend. Luka was out of reach, still in the grip of the
Englassen guardsmen who’d restrained him as the king had been murdered.
Finn was behind him, pinned to the ground by another set of guards after
she had burst into the ceremony.
“No applause? Are you not pleased by the homecoming of your longlost prince?” Sombra gestured at Dezmin’s body with a grin.
Dezmin was nothing but a garment to Sombra. The unfairness of it all
struck Alfie like a slap. He’d spent endless nights desperately wishing for
his brother to be found, only to have him return controlled by a monster.
“Leave my brother’s body,” Alfie rasped, finding his voice. “Get out!”
“Ah, but why would I?” Sombra asked. “I quite like it here.”
“This is ridiculous!” cried the petulant voice of Prince Marsden.
Alfie started. Sombra’s appearance had been so shocking, he’d nearly
forgotten that moments ago the Englassen royal family had tried to
magically enslave all of Castallan. They hadn’t succeeded, because the
spellwork required the blood of every living member of the royal family,
and they hadn’t had Dezmin’s.
“Guards!” Marsden roared, spittle flying from his thin lips. He pointed
at Sombra. “We will repeat the ritual with Prince Dezmin’s blood. Restrain
him at onc—”
In the blink of an eye, Sombra materialized in front of the flustered
Englassen prince. It happened so fast that Alfie never saw him move, but he
felt the air whip past him as if he’d stuck his head out of a speeding
carriage.
Standing so close to Marsden that their noses could have brushed,
Sombra looked at him like a child contemplating squishing a bug. “You
make far too much noise.”
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