Inside the Wicked (WAR OF HEARTS #2) by Chloe C. Peñaranda EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Chloe C. Peñaranda
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Anastasia
Ninety-three days have passed without Rhett. I wear the scars of each one
on my heart, wondering if the days will ever pass without cutting.
I sit across from Alistair Lanshall in his musty old office. The man who
took everything from me. He looks at me from his tall seat by the fireplace
as if I’m his weapon in the making, not knowing my sharpening edge will
take his blood when it’s time. I have the patience to get it right. If I were to
cut off the head of the network by killing Alistair, it would only grow
another.
He never took my red serpent earrings from me. More than three
months with Alistair Lanshall and he never once questioned them. It’s my
secret triumph, the only color I wear now. And the King of the Vipers
remains oblivious to the serpent in his den. At the end of the war, it doesn’t
matter that those around me have fangs primed with venom, only who has
the cunning to strike first.
“You’ve been excelling, Anastasia,” Alistair praises, lighting a cigar.
He sits in the wingback armchair opposite me as we both lose ourselves
to the fire blazing in the hearth of his elaborate office. It’s nearly summer,
but it’s as if this mansion refuses to hold heat, and I often think it’s the
lingering death clinging to the dark corners of every room that causes its
chill. I know this space all too well as Alistair has taken my training on
personally—apparently something he hasn’t done since Rhett Kaiser.
I thought over time the loss of him might be easier to face. Yet time is
cruel, taunting. The present can be distracted, but the future will always be
without Rhett, and every time I remember that fact my heart breaks with a
new crack. Grief never silences; it’s ever-present. A slow kind of death until
we get to join the lost. My heart became cold to everyone and my mind is
focused on my task: to learn everything I can about Alistair Lanshall and
ruin him in the wreckage I plan to make of his empire.
My hand runs down Shadow’s fur as I say, “I’ll be graduating soon, then
I’ll have more time.”
He allowed me to continue my PHD and live my own life for show. My
station and access are invaluable to him now my father is President,
residing in the White House.
I got my own apartment despite my father’s protests. After everything
that happened with the Forbes, his security detail around me became
insufferable, but it didn’t take long for Alistair to kill off the agents assigned
to me and have his own resume their identities. Their deaths will forever
linger on my conscience.
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