Kingdom of Ash

usually went farther than necessary to avoid
having them hear anything. Lorcan gave her a
few minutes before he stalked into the dark
after her.
He found Elide already heading back, and
she paused atop a little hill, barely more than
a hump of dirt in the field. “What do you
want.”
Lorcan kept walking, until he was at the
base of the hill, and stopped. “Akkadia is the
wiser choice.”
“Rowan decided that, too. You must be so
pleased.”
She made to stomp past him, but Lorcan
stepped into her path. She craned back her
neck to see his face, yet he’d never felt
smaller. Shorter. “I didn’t push for Akkadia to
spite you,” he managed to say.
“I don’t care.”
She tried to edge around him, Lorcan easily