Witch Queen (WITCH QUEEN #6) by A.D. Starrling EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Nikolai Stanisic stood on a rooftop terrace overlooking
Manhattan. He gently rubbed the faded photograph in his hand with a
thumb.
It was the picture Mae Jin had found in the palace that once served as
the headquarters of the Dark Council, the prison he and his mother had been
confined to for years.
The setting sun cast an orange glow on his mother’s pale face where she
sat holding him on her lap. His chest grew tight with a wealth of emotions.
Nikolai still remembered Gabriela Stanisic begging one of the few
palace attendants who had been tolerant of her presence to take the
photograph on the day he’d turned ten. They’d had but an hour in which to
enjoy a hastily arranged secret birthday party, one which only his mother
and himself had attended.
She had been summoned to Vedran Borojevic’s private chambers
shortly afterward, only to return late at night, her face ashen and the fresh
bruises the Sorcerer King had inflicted upon her body showing above the
neckline of her long-sleeved dress.
By then, Nikolai had been old enough to realize just how his father
treated his mother. Even if he hadn’t been, his half-brother Oscar had
relished recounting the ways in which their father regularly degraded her.
The rage that had burned in his young heart when he’d grasped the
horrors she suffered to keep the two of them alive in that pit of blackhearted snakes was something he still carried to this day.
A haze of Hellfire Magic ignited around him despite his best intentions.
Even though Nikolai knew it would not harm anything he cherished, he
hastily suppressed his powers, worried they would accidentally scorch the
precious memento he clasped.
Alastair rustled his wings and made a worried sound on his shoulder.
“I know.” Nikolai stroked the familiar, remorse a bitter aftertaste in his
mouth. “I need to do something about these feelings.”
His breath shuddered out of him. Before they destroy me.
The resentment and fury festering inside him since he’d woken up from
the Illusion Sorcery cast upon him had only grown with the passage of time.
He still found it hard to swallow all the horrible things he had done to Mae
and her bonds in that church in Concord. How he had allowed his father to
absorb his and Alastair’s powers and use them against the woman he loved
and their friends.
In the aftermath of the battle that had seen Mae free his and Alastair’s
minds from their dark shackles and Hellreaver meet his shocking end,
Nikolai had focused all of his energy on bringing solace to the witch he had
betrayed.
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