The Queen of Nothing (Full Book) by Holly Black ( PDFDrive )

I get what it feels like to shove things down for long enough
that they erupt. I also get what it’s like to shove a knife in
somebody. “It’s okay,” I say, not sure if that’s true.
She turns to me. “I thought we were nothing alike, you and
I. But it turns out we’re just the same.”
I don’t think she believes that to be a good thing.
“Where’s his body now?” I ask, trying to focus on the
practical. “We need to get rid of it and—”
Taryn shakes her head. “His body was already discovered.”
“How? What did you do?” Before, I was frustrated she
came to ask for help, but now I’m annoyed she didn’t come
sooner, when I could have taken care of this.
“I dragged his body down to the waves. I thought the tide
would carry him away, but he just washed up again on another
beach. At least, um, at least some of him was chewed. It was
harder for them to tell how he died.” She looks at me
helplessly, as though she still can’t conceive how any of this is
happening to her. “I’m not a bad person.”
I take a sip of my yarrow tea. “I didn’t say you were.”
“There’s going to be an inquest,” Taryn goes on. “They’re
going to glamour me and ask questions. I won’t be able to lie.
But if you answer in my place, you can say honestly that you
didn’t kill him.”
“Jude is exiled,” Vivi says. “Banished until she gets the
crown’s forgiveness or some other high-handed crap. If they
catch her, they’ll kill her.”
“It will just be a few hours,” Taryn says, looking from one
of us to the other. “And no one will know. Please.”
Vivi groans. “It’s too risky.”
I say nothing, which seems to be the thing that tips her off
that I am considering it. “You want to go, don’t you?” Vivi
asks, fixing me with a shrewd look. “You want an excuse to go
back there. But once they glamour you, they’ll ask your name.