Truth of Embers by Caitlyn McFarland EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Caitlyn McFarland
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Rhys
HELL WAS NOT a place of fire. It was a place of ice and darkness.
A place of pain.
Rhys ap Ayen, King of the Eryri dragons, knelt in mud. He wore his
human form, and snow melted by the flames of his magic formed a puddle
that soaked into his knees and the toes of his boots. Arctic air whistled over
the top of the narrow chasm in which he’d chosen to isolate himself. Not
too far from the camp, but hidden from the sky by an overhang in case
Owain’s scouts flew overhead. He didn’t want them to see the glow of his
fire when he lost control—when he could no longer bear Kai’s torment.
Kai?
Kai Monahan, his mate, wept inside his head. He pulled her close
through the bond that connected them, despite the agony. Ancients, Owain
had given her to an air Draig this time. The man had tied Kai to a metal
frame and was sending bolts of electricity through her, increasing the
current until her muscles spasmed and her throat was raw from crying out.
Rhys slammed his fists into the mud. It sizzled and smoked. Tongues of
flame licked over his hands. Hold on, cariad. It will be over soon. I’m here.
Hold on.
She didn’t reply. For fifteen or twenty minutes, she’d been beyond
words. He could sense her fighting to not throw herself into him, to hold on
to her anguish so he wouldn’t feel it.
So Rhys wouldn’t be tempted to give Owain what he wanted: Rhys’s
life.
Tonight, Rhys would take Owain’s life instead.
Let me take your pain, Kai. Please.
She wouldn’t.
Nothing he could do. She was in agony, and there was nothing he could
do.
The weight of it bore down on him until his forehead almost brushed the
churned earth. He sucked in air and loosened shaking fists as if he could
breathe for her starved lungs, relax her rigid muscles. This was the last
time. It had to be the last time.
She screamed.
Oh, Stars. Let them stop.
Thirteen days she’d been screaming. Weeping. Begging. Until only
constant guard and sometimes physical restraint kept Rhys from flying to
Cadarnle to give himself to Owain and end her suffering. If it hadn’t been
for the vision his Seeress sister, Seren, left behind after her abduction—
which had occurred during the same battle—he would have.
He would rather die than let Kai go through this.
Snow crunched as Morwenna, arrived from Eryri only hours ago, paced
across the canyon mouth a dozen feet away. Normally Cadoc would’ve
been standing guard. Since he’d broken the curse that forced him to attack
Rhys on sight, Cadoc had stuck to Rhys’s side like a barnacle. But everyone
in the vee—the small military unit he’d trained and lived with since
childhood—knew the cold bothered Cadoc’s maimed hand. Despite having
just arrived after the week-long flight from Eryri, Morwenna had
volunteered.
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