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thing you see coming. Likely the de
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It was an effort to put up that old
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flattered she held a knife to my th
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towering stacks of crates full of i
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been captured, Sorscha killed, and
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the map he wanted Ironteeth scouts
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while she used them for pleasure, a
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Coming from anyone else, even Sorre
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she’d spotted weeks ago but hadn
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She hadn’t seen this suit, hadn
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Large, slightly uptilted green eyes
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like. Or”—she gestured to the k
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Lysandra shifted on the couch. “A
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slipped a reassuring arm around Eva
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CHAPTER10Aedion’s vision was swim
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wounds. She shoved a tonic down his
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CHAPTER11The Shadow Market had oper
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breath. No distractions; no slip-up
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swaggering assassin incarnate. “I
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This wasn’t Wendlyn. The luxuriou
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Human in shape, but nothing more.Th
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to break the Crochan curse.Asterin
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it won’t disturb you, Lady.”“
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world had shifted to one side. Even
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CHAPTER13Aelin didn’t know whethe
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slave trade agreement, making Sam w
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“It was a present.”“Stick wit
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way to stay safe.”Lysandra just n
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down a box of chocolates without so
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boards of the wooden platform were
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expecting you tomorrow,” he went
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Night fell, and Aelin knew she was
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CHAPTER15Aedion Ashryver was ready
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CHAPTER16The demon made him sit on
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upper ends of her tattoo-covered sc
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Then she saw them.Written across th
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CHAPTER17Once Florine and the rest
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looking down the line at each dance
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a clashing, vibrant finale, each no
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sword, a direct attack to her chest
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she said to him, then launched hers
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clean into Aedion, who grunted in p
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two men atop the wall grunted with
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guard peering into the carriage wit
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cleaning him up. He should be fine,
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Aelin grimaced. “I could have liv
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Hellas’s consort—were brutal, b
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Elide shuddered as she took another
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family was originally from Rosamel,
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and a preachy twat, but … She ran
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him to insert some sort of stone in
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why raise this army … Why?” She
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CHAPTER22Chaol left his watch on th
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that still teemed with panicked peo
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known she had a sister. Or that she
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finally, finally she looked at him
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happened to him these past ten year
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Beneath her black mask, Aelin focus
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alone what he’d done to her throu
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CHAPTER24Chaol didn’t know what t
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use of the woman fighting with such
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attention wasn’t on the corpse be
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CHAPTER25Elide was washing dishes,
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Elide scrubbed at the pot. She’d
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“Bold, mad little thing,” the w
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“Manon,” Asterin began.“Wing
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elsewhere.”“Whatever would your
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CHAPTER26“I’m not about to keel
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prince.“Anyway,” Aelin said sha
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of her shirt every now and then. He
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she murmured. A chill went down Aed
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Maybe it had been selfish of him to
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CHAPTER27The creature rose, its bla
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“What were you doing that was so
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“It belongs to you,” she said a
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could hardly recognize one another,
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CHAPTER28She was shaking from head
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exactly, he picked up with those he
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with the water sliding off him.Gods
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honed by three centuries of trainin
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The two princes stared at each othe
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Rowan said, “I don’t know. Even
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you done to earn that? What have yo
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Aelin was well on her way to wearin
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“Maybe.” The thought was enough
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lunge for her hand, to touch the fa
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His eyes gleamed like an animal’s
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She grabbed a wooden spoon and push
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demon prince couldn’t find him.Th
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The duke surged for her, but then a
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armies, even if it decreases your n
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gobbled down than face whoever had
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CHAPTER32Manon had spotted Elide sl
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“Is she human, though?” Sorrel
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Turning toward Manon’s tower, she
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And yet—a kernel of understanding
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enemy at their backs … Shit. And
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boxes and bags in her arms. She had
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Fantastic. Arobynn, Lorcan, the kin
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in her tone, “but there are worse
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themselves by the water, she’d wa
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the curtains on the stage.She’d s
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slipped down a side street. A flock
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Three of his group had set to uncha
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CHAPTER36It didn’t take long for
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“I’ll rip out your throat befor
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locking the sliding door behind her
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A sly cat’s glance in Aelin’s d
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later.”Lysandra nodded and picked
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The invitation arrived by street ur
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CHAPTER39“Dead as dead can be,”
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the man, a hawk closing in on prey.
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another building, ready and waiting
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She shook her head, then shrugged.
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BelovedArobynn had left it blank—
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CHAPTER40Elide spent two days on vo
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Second door on the left. It was gou
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“It is an abomination!” Asterin
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but … I never believed them when
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Aedion was now lounging in a small
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CHAPTER42The front gates of the Ass
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deliberate slowness, he turned to R
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“Get out,” Arobynn said simply
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the peck of someone not entirely th
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made her start begging for mercy.
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clients and investors, when you fre
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Wesley’s letter had explained in
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boundless power dwelling inside of
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She just stared, waiting.“Do you
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he touched—”“I know what he t
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later.”She scowled. “Typical wa
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she whispered. “He was going to e
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flat and dull in a way she hadn’t
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For Wesley. For Sam. For Aelin.And
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CHAPTER46Today, Aelin decided, was
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CHAPTER47“What the rutting hell h
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“Boots,” Tern said at her side.
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faces carefully neutral.“It is my
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She made a thoughtful sound. “I s
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She didn’t even look at him. “C
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CHAPTER48Manon beat Asterin in the
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roar was muted in her dulled ears.
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She stayed silent, so he mastered h
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He debated telling her that it was
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“To have seen the look on Clariss
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employees.”“She makes good brea
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“Gods above,” Chaol murmured fr
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Aelin scanned the bone temple. “W
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Aelin stepped up to the stone.Damar
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a key that can unlock any door—ev
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“Was there anything else you all
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other. And Edda and Briar, both of
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Dorian—they needed Dorian on the
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slumbering under that mountain.Mayb
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“Stop dancing around it and tell
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And that it would be a shame if he
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“Aelin,” he breathed. Not in re
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CHAPTER53Drink, the demon prince co
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her kind.It meant nothing, anyway.
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whisper of thought. Fire—it did n
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“They took her, they took her, th
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CHAPTER56A few hours later, seated
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She eyed her cousin, his golden hai
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CHAPTER57“I can smell them all ri
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two of them followed behind her esp
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CHAPTER58Manon Blackbeak hated this
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“I was told to keep my mouth shut
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death wish?”Do not speak to it.He
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It was all the distraction Aelin ne
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Wing Leader?”“No, Matron.” Th
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that kill be his last. But this wou
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The Wing Leader studied Aedion agai
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Aelin hadn’t believed for one mom
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and lunged.Manon deflected the blow
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it, sending them both cracking to t
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the bridge as the island began to c
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Nesryn’s mouth tightened. “She
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She released the lever and pivoted
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She’d planned on telling the king
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CHAPTER63“Where on earth could yo
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None of the Thirteen had dared say
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against his worst, and still obey.
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Manon could hardly think, hardly br
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“I never went back to the hunter.
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CHAPTER64Rowan barely remembered an
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seemed like a pretty shitty way to
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Lysandra only wept harder.“But yo
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CHAPTER65Rowan was more tired than
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skin, Lorcan? Is it that she’s no
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frowned when nothing particularly e
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happy,” he said. And meant it. Sh
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place. My father never agreed with
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really burn.But he got out of bed,
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WITCH KILLER—THE HUMAN IS STILL I
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everything.Then she smiled with eve
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Aedion gritted his teeth against th
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He was already moving, and she swor
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CHAPTER69Aelin’s black cloak flow
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before I left.” She pulled out tw
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but this …She had been in her hum
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instead sentenced to Endovier. The
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weapon if I don’t gain one in ret
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The bellow cost his brother. One cr
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She reached a glass-covered bridge
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Aelin had gotten out, and taken Dor
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you. You loved her. And they took h
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he had for centuries.Then the wind
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The bridge—this bridge that she a
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Aedion spat blood onto the debris.
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More soldiers rushed into the sewer
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“Dorian?” she breathed.The demo
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So the world ended.And the next one
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CHAPTER78Aelin Galathynius stared a
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murdered my family.”“I came to
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For the city that had offered her j
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and flames danced at her fingertips
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is even more curious what will come
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and perhaps the cripple had gotten
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“Now.”Two of them shoved into t
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ripped out the throat of one man wi
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me, but I kept a piece of it. To re
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Elide didn’t say a word as Manon
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in pain, the rough healing he’d d
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two chambers in which the Crown Pri
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So he did. About the hellfire, and
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Bane, Aedion Ashryver walked into A
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CHAPTER84Dorian Havilliard had awok
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Beyond the window, the day was brig
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to heal it, not when he could make
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CHAPTER85Elide couldn’t stop cryi
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one who remembered them.But Manon h
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CHAPTER86“This is the last of you
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“I have no idea,” Aelin said.
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CHAPTER87The duke survived. So did
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Manon shook her head and grinned ba
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She shook her head. “I figured it
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Damaris, which Chaol had given to A
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to know that this was real and he w
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Three weeks of grueling travel—bu
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI think it’s commo
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KINGDOMS WILL COLLIDE.Don’t miss
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she’d die here, alone in this end
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One beat—then another not even a
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