NO GREATER SORROW (OUR LADY OF FIRE #2) BY L.B. BLACK – eBook Details Online
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THE APOSTATE
“The origins of the Dark Saints remain unknown, though some
scholars speculate they were once humans favored by the Knowing
One for their wicked deeds. Though this remains a mere theory, the
magic required to undergo such a transmutation is so dangerous that,
to the best of this author’s knowledge, not even the boldest of
occultists have endeavored to try it.”
—Excerpt from Ten Myths of the Otherlanders by Emiel Nasir.
The day began in red, as dawn light shot through their curtains like
bloodied spears. Aleja felt Nicolas leave their bed as the sun rose. When he
returned, he breathed unevenly against her hair, as if something was lodged
in his throat. She lay with her eyes open, listening for the click of a dog’s
nails on the marble floors.
But only silence greeted her.
Time to get up. This is going to be a breeze. There’s nothing to it but
surviving, said her inner voice, who’d been quiet since their visit to the
Second’s cave beneath the mountains.
Easy for you to say, Aleja grumbled internally.
“Remember, don’t take any chances,” Nicolas said, his breath hot
against the back of her neck. He spoke as if they’d already been in a
conversation that’d been briefly interrupted. “Be aware of your
surroundings at all times, but don’t trust anything you see. Take your
weapon of choice and nothing else from the Second.”
“When do we start?” she asked in a voice muffled by the bedsheets. The
scent of vanilla, woodsmoke, and sweat from her nightmares lingered on
them.
“At nightfall, in the Second’s cave. You and Violet are to go together.”
Aleja rolled over and stared at the elaborately molded ceiling. Wooden
serpents coiled above her; since spending time in the Hiding Place, she
found herself at home in a den of vipers. “What will you do?” she asked.
“Wait for you. I’ll always wait for you.”
“That’s not what I meant, Nic. The Astraelis…”
“Taddeas is rallying our troops. He’ll reach the border by noon.”
“You can’t let him—you know he doesn’t want to—”
“He always knew this was a possibility.” Nicolas touched her chin,
moving her head so they made eye contact. “Focus on the Trials. The best
thing you can do for Taddeas is to survive them.”
Aleja quieted. There were no words that could capture the dread moving
through her, and not simply because of the Trials. Part of her wanted to rip
the tunic from Nicolas’s chest to see what he’d been hiding after every
breathless declaration of trust.
But she said and did nothing. Instead, she donned the leather armor
Bonnie had brought from one of the storage sheds, then hooked the
opalescent sickle to her belt. It was all Aleja carried, aside from a small
gold box for which she did not have the key
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