My magic alerted me as soon as Holly entered the market. I owed her money. She wasn’t the only one, but she was the one who threatened to bury me alive if I wasn’t ready to pay her back the next time she saw me. With her affinity for terramancy, it wasn’t an idle threat.…
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Shadow-Blessed Ep. 50
I woke up to the smell of breakfast cooking. Clark’s arm lay across me, not gripping tight but gently reminding me I found a life I’d never let myself hope for. I looked at his face as he stirred from sleep and smiled at me. He pulled me closer and held me for a moment…
Shadow-Blessed Ep. 49
Temperance left us to discuss our options. Throughout breakfast, she’d given us expansive plans for what we could accomplish if we worked within the Coven to change it for the better. I couldn’t get her initial words out of my mind. And Erebus, it would seem that you’ve already been performing the role we’d planned…
Shadow-Blessed Ep. 48
We made it to the highway before I woke up. I sat across from Temperance Alessandra, tied to a chair with magical restraints. Everything had felt so real. I had no idea when she’d started manipulating my thoughts. Had Ruby and Eli come and she’d caught me somewhere in the chaos? Did we even leave…
Shadow-Blessed Ep. 47
The door opened in the middle of the night. All the hall’s sounds died down hours before, and our prison suite converted into a bedroom moments before the lights went out. I couldn’t sleep, so when I heard the lock disengage, I readied my knife under the blanket. Just because I couldn’t work magic in…
Shadow-Blessed Ep. 46
I didn’t get the chance to shadow-step to Clark. As soon as the light went out of Newton’s eyes, a new compulsion plowed into me like a hurricane. All the magic that Temperance had been pushing had to go somewhere once the other cerebremancer wasn’t holding it at bay, and I was the only one…
Shadow-Blessed Ep. 45
“May I be excused?” Clark asked. He ate faster than normal, but I didn’t think much of it. It could have been nerves, or it could have been that the food was just better. “Come back quickly. I’m sure Milo won’t want you to miss anything,” Newton said. He wanted Clark to watch as he…