Creatures that Breathe (SAPPH IN THE CITY #1) by M L Chambers EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Leni
The sentries promised I’d be hogtied and flogged by now. Dealt a light tar
and feathering. Dumped into a vat of toxic sludge, flung off of a runaway
Ferris wheel, forced to sip boiling hot ghost pepper stew with my pinky
finger raised.
It’s supposed to be inevitable.
The sky will fall, mortals will proliferate, and any who seek the
Blackguard will die. With horrendous bloody flourish.
I flew across the ocean for true gut-wrenching torment and what has it
gotten me?
Nothing.
No knives to the throat or guns at my temple. Zero impalements. Not
even a measly threat to make my theoretical children weep.
I could be on a beach in Fiji right now. Salt sprayed hair, lips pink with
grenadine, white sand bunched under neon nails.
Instead, I’m freezing non-essential toes off in this Apollo cursed
winterland.
All for him. And does he even care? Has he even noticed?
No.
Males.
For weeks now, I’ve been stalking an endless cycle of dark wash jeans,
worn leather jackets, and waterlogged combat boots.
If Yaya were alive, she’d swat me with the tip of her feather pen. Don’t
punish them for having style, Eleni.
Typical wisdom for a female who cut her jeans apart at the crack to
remix them into skinny-flares: ideal for the rare fashionista bicyclist.
The Blackguard’s style is ubiquitous—ruthless. Once nothing more than
human soldiers, they were elevated to immortal warriors to become the
great King Kadmos’s personal arsenal: the glimmering Kingsguard.
Limitless in power, bound by a strict moral code, the Kingsguard was hailed
as near Divine.
Better.
They were better than Zeus and his righteous Olympians, for they were
proof of the King’s mission: peace among creatures and mortals.
They were beloved and revered. Temples were forged in their names.
Until they betrayed the very male they’d vowed their loyalty.
In less time than it took for Hermes to escort the fallen King Kadmos to
the Underworld, the Kingsguard were cursed and their gleaming title
warped into an odious and wicked brotherhood: the Blackguard.
The curse decimated their virtue, leaving them cruel beyond imagining.
Dripping with heinous power, they went on to wreak havoc across the
realm, flaunting lethal skills and detestable perversions.
The savage assassins of the former King Kadmos. Killers of the Vein of
Elpis, the Unifier, Dawn’s Rise, the Last of his Blood, Final in the line of
Hope.
The Blackguard are the destroyers of hope.
And they’re who I’m after.
“Don’t look at me as if I don’t realize how it sounds,” Nadja says,
mistaking my rising irritation for disbelief. She’s perched in front of me,
dusting breadcrumbs off her mittens, ignorant of the danger lurking around
us. “Believe me,” she doubles down. “I know exactly how it sounds. But
Fritz is not usually like that. He’s so frickin’ sweet. He wants the best for
me.”
I’ve known Fritz for two-point-five seconds and I can guarantee he and
his chain wallet are far from sweet.
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