Star turned from the window, or what little of it she must be able to see, and looked Iridescia up and down. This time, she didn’t smile. “Your boy-king is using you. The shadows are what matter to him, not family. Not love.” That Iridescia knew was wrong; for Liberio, love mattered most of all. “He won't do anything bad,” Iridescia signed, though inside she was anything but certain. She had to hope though. “Not with me and Roewyn at his side. We have to stay together. Because of you we're all he has.” Star’s mocking smile returned. “He will do bad things.” She rattled the chain that shackled her foot to the bedpost, as though it were all the proof Iridescia needed. “He's already done bad things. He will make you do them, because it's all he knows. Because he's not alive like the rest of us, and he's forgotten kindness and mercy both. Is loyalty worth the pain he'll cause? Is love? When he sacks his first city, it won't be your rivals he lays waste to any longer.”
I'd been posting these pretty regularly and then forgot!
But here's an excerpt from The Crown of Asmodeus, sequel to The Wings of Ashtaroth!
Slight spoilers for Book 1!
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