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Freya’s pheromones and scent become stronger.
I need to taste her.
I tip back my head, smiling.
So, this is freedom.
This is feeling
This is happiness.
I laugh then as well, rumbling and unrestrained.
I laugh like I truly am a fae dancing beneath the open skies.
My shadows coil out, joining the shadows that are winding out of every other dancing dragon in this Carnival of Shadows.
My brother and Maximinus couldn’t have been more wrong. Sensing the shadow souls of the people in my capital, being connected to thousands of them in thisfestival, as our shadows dance and twine as I do, doesn’t unleash my darkness.
It unleashes only my joy.
Unexpectedly, a scream cuts through the music. Then another scream, louder and closer.
The chanting falters.
The waves of shadows draw back into the dancers, as people stumble and look around themselves in panic.
Daire stares at me through his mask. “Is this part of the entertainment? What the bloody hell is going on?”
“I don’t know.” Adrenaline surges through me. I drop my hand to the hilt of my dagger at my waist. I glance at Freya. “Stay close.”
I scan through the crowds.
War and Lucius are shoving their way toward us as fast as they can.
Vicious and Wraith are already leaning on the wall to the alleyway close by.
What on the Shadow Gods is happening?
“Fucking Bloods,” War bellows above the frantic chatter of the crowds. “The fuckers are attacking.”
CHAPTER THIRTY
Bael
Aurelius
Lanlin is finally comingfor Freya.
After three years, the Vampire King who was my friend turned brother killer is making his move to take back our Omega from me.
Let the games of love and war begin.
Panicked cries replace the singing, and the carnival descends into a chaos that I have only experienced once before in a battle that I hoped to be able to forget and never dreamed to experiencein my own capital.
Stalls are knocked over. Lanterns are smashed. Omegas scream.
The wild joy and happiness inside me curdles.
