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Jada nodded grimly and kicked up into the slipstream

Then he was there beside her in her sacred place, she could feel hi but a starry tunnel She was chafed to realize it was because he was htly faster than her She couldn’t help herself "Barrons, you’ve got to teach me how to do that!"

His words buzzed softly and seeet Mac back and fix our world, and if Ryodan won’t, I will"

Chills kissed her skin because Barrons was aher own hand off to be able to ht was a bitch, kid, but you pulled it together Ryodan was right You’ve become one hell of a woman"

Somehow, it didn’t irritate her that he’d called her kid It was as if his words had been a nod to both Dani and Jada and it felt good Dani was her foundation Jada was her fortress Both were her Both essential

Then Barrons was gone

Hu Jo was satisfying but she tastes unpleasant and eating her provides no nourishle time I’d seized control of MacKayla’s body in the past, I’d ridden it hard for hours, but ressively weaker For no reason I’d been able to discern, I lost control of the vessel and it slue of tinizant for the entire duration; in control one moment, controlled the next

Still, fro dominance of her body to ed confidence I’d ceasedher dead sister, Alina, back to life, nudging here and there to under doubts in the garden of her mind

NEVER LET ANYONE ELSE INTO YOUR GARDEN WE HOE OUT THE CROPS AND SEED IN WEEDS--ALL THE WHILE TELLING YOU HOW BEAUTIFUL OUR WEEDS ARE, THAT, IN FACT, THEY’RE NOT WEEDS AT ALL, AND YOU’RE SO LUCKY TO HAVE THEM--UNTIL YOU’RE NO LONGER CERTAIN WHAT A WEED EVEN IS

Imbeciles Wretches That’s hoin Don’t turn over the fucking keys to your kingdoet evicted Once you let us confuse you with enough lies that you no longer know your truth, n your reality AND YOU GAVE IT TO US

As I push to , I shovemy next move My muscles burn fro It’s an insult that I was born so flawed My jaws hurt froed in ums

I pick it out with the tip of one of oals: kill Christian, kill Cruce, and find the stones Events have not unfolded as I’d intended The Unseelie flesh I ate isn’t fueling h it too fast and require more It doesn’t help that randly fucked my plans By this hour, both princes should have been dead

I expandthe stones, which MacKayla was certain were soht they have been moved? I assess possibilities and encounter an obstacle of th, I ate Unseelie, which mutes MacKayla’s ability to sense Fae objects of power LIMITS! YET MORE LIMITS TO REMEMBER! I ather my army, seize the stones, destroy them, andan arrounds while still more of them search the ruins for me, but MacKayla would call the stones my Kryptonite, and I’ll not unearth theet them? It occurs to me that two out of three aren’t bad: the cocoons I’ve put the princes in, while not asthem will be, are sufficient

Para it my priority

I push myself up fro aware of eyes onme? There is no one with my clarity, my focus, my resolve

I stand motionless, curious to know the face of my foe

Jericho Barrons steps from behind a tumbled wall

For a mo woman in a world where men are physically superior Christian Cruce Now Barrons He exudes ferocity, power, hunger, his presence saturates the air with palpable, electrifying energy Even the Fae fear him Shades slink ahen he passes He has killed Fae royals--sifters! His vessel is wide-shouldered, big-boned, muscled and powerful as a lion Undestroyable I despise hihly, and I knohat he sees: his precious little Mac, all blond and bouncy, defiled and vile--it doesn’t escape me that VILE becomes EVIL becomes LIVE, more proof my supremacy was destined--drenched in blood, hair ealed irl’s hands, under her nails

He sweeps the re to identify thearnished with the broken eggshells of her skull