Three Kings by Freydis Moon EPUB & PDF – Details About
- Author: Freydis Moon
- Genre: Multicultural & Interracial Romance
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- Size: 1MB
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Chapter One
Ethan Shaw carried two knives, one for lilies, the other for veins. The blade
in his left hand curved like a smile, clipping stems at a sweet, diagonal angle.
The second weapon was concealed in a petite leather sheath, tucked neatly in
his right palm.
The ritual called for innocence, and he had none to spare, so he searched
the shoreline for white-petaled flowers—speckled with saltwater, yawning
toward the sky—and remembered the folktale that wormed through Casper,
spoken quietly at the pub, hollered by sailors on the docks, cooed in the
apothecary, and sung by children on the playground.
Those Casper lilies, the story went, are filled to the brim with what we’ve
lost.
Like snakes, the townsfolk shed their innocence, leaving it to stew in the
bay, sink into the soil, and beat against the lighthouse. And like snakes, the
lilies drew their outgrown magic into tangled roots and narrow stems and
gilded pollen: an ouroboros consuming itself.
Most people refused to use the term—magic—but Ethan found it
appropriate. Harvesting long-gone energy from a living thing felt like its very
definition. Using said magic to reanimate a corpse felt less like magic,
though, and more like recklessness.
He yelped and flailed before he hit the water, bracing for the icy shock.
Panic shot through him. Salt water rushed into his nostrils, and seaweed
snagged his ankle. Swim, idiot. November wind nipped his face when he
breached, sucking at the air, clutching drenched flowers to his chest. Casper
lilies never promised to be easy, of course. But Ethan Shaw still cursed as he
slushed through tidepools and mud. He sighed, relieved, when his soggy shoes hit the gravel path outside the tower.
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