HOUSE OF SHIFTERS AND SMOKE (SHADES OF RUIN AND MAGIC #3) BY MEG XUEMEI X – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Meg Xuemei X
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Barbie
Clamor and bustle engulfed me. The mage ringleader barked orders.
This sorry lot was desperate to leave the scene.
I grinned viciously even though I was bleeding out. “In a hurry,
bitches?”
Agony pounded in my veins, which might burst open if this kept going.
I couldn’t tell where the pain started and where it ended. Having low
tolerance to pain had always been my weakness. And now it became hard to
concentrate on even a single thought. Sy was gone, banished or locked
somewhere so far away that, for the first time, I could no longer feel her.
Sy! Sy! I screamed and begged for her to answer to no avail. I was
utterly alone facing whatever terror waited for me.
The mage ringleader, who was the only magic user in this group, placed
her fingers on my wrist and chanted to try to stop my bleeding, but no
healing spells could work on me, even when my power was muted. The
woman cursed warily. Someone else stepped up and wrapped a roll of
bandages around my stump.
They didn’t want me dead, at least not yet.
I gasped at the pain, trying to come up with another exit plan, yet there
was none. Wild, panicked thoughts ran amok in my head. Fear iced me
over.
They were going to deliver me to my father. What the Shriekers had
failed to do, these douchebags might just achieve.
Then I recalled what the ringleader had said maliciously against the iron
mask that had swallowed my head. “This is the first trial of the Brides
Selection, and you’ll beg for death, Barbie!”
They weren’t Ruin’s agents, yet my fear didn’t lessen a notch. That
woman’s threat promised terrible pain. I kicked them. I fought with my one
good hand like a caged animal. More hands grabbed me to subdue me, a
cold blade slicing into my flesh. I screamed, the sound echoing back to me
within the iron mask. My breath was cut short as claustrophobia kicked in. I
didn’t do well in such a confined space.
I stopped struggling, realizing it was futile. It’d only hinder my logic
and observation. I needed to get a good feel of the enemies’ operation, and
then I’d be able to find a narrow window to escape.
I needed to find the crack among my abductors.
I shoved my fear and panic down to the pit of my stomach and locked
them there, alone now without Sy.
“We gotta go before the chaos heir gets here!” the mage barked, her
voice tense with fear. “Now!”
I wasn’t the only one afraid. I could smell the stench of my enemies’
fear at hearing Killian’s name. I smirked, even though agony bombarded
me, even though I’d been locked in the cold darkness within the iron mask.
Killian would avenge me, no matter what, even though we hadn’t parted
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