“Akatsuki…” I whispered, my words trembling. He turned to face me, his shocking mane of hair concealing his eyes. “Don’t go…please, don’t go.” Akatsuki took one deep breath and swallowed before slo...
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He was gorgeous. That was enough reason for me to be staring at him, even if my eyes were getting a little too wide and I hadn’t blinked in too long to be socially acceptable. But the way his soft, unusually silver hair flopped over his fore...
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Kain whistled appreciatively as Ruka gracefully descended the stairs in the Moon Dormitory entrance hall. She smiled slowly in response and ghosted over to him. ‘Can I take that to mean you like the dress?’ she asked in a deceptively c...
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My shoulders were shaking with the effort of trying to suppress sobs. I let my long, dark hair fall over my eyes to hide the misery I was sure must be ravaging my pale face. Next to me, my – what was he? I supposed calling him my guardian angel would be most accurate – wrapped a strong arm around my waist securely. The wings that sprouted from his back, made up of a million beautiful white feathers folded around me too.
‘Why should we pay for what you’ve chosen to do?’ my angel, my saviour, asked coldly of the man standing opposite us.
The situation seemed like a Mexican stand-off in an old Western. The thought made a bubble of hysteria build up, and I mashed a fist into my lips to force away a giggle. One look at the guy across the room sobered me instantly. He was achingly beautiful. His silver hair just tickled his electrically green eyes, which were searching me as though they could see into my soul. For all I knew, they could.
He licked his lips with a dart of his pointed tongue, and I found myself mirroring the gesture. ‘I’m sorry,’ he whispered, though his lips didn’t move. The words just blew into my mind, meant only for me. Then, in an explosion of light and colour, his heart literally shredded inside his chest.
I was sprinting to him immediately. My hands caught his head before it hit the ground, cradling his lifeless body against mine. I felt a hand on my shoulder, but shrugged him off. Even my angel couldn’t console me now. ‘He betrayed his people to save me. You thought he was leaking information to them about my whereabouts, but he was protecting me,’ I breathed.
‘I loved him,’ I admitted, ‘and that’s why he’s dead.’
Prologue
Blood…there was so much blood. The metallic tang in my mouth was overpowering, and yet not as unpleasant as I would have expected it to be. I lifted my hand to inspec...
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