took no chances.
He didn’t today, either, despite not
bothering with the gauntlets.
Perhaps they’d melted away over that
brazier, along with her skin.
Cairn yanked her upright as half a dozen
guards silently appeared in the doorway. Their
faces held no horror at what had been done to
her.
She’d seen these males before. On a
bloodied bit of beach.
“Varik,” Cairn said, and one of the guards
stepped forward, Fenrys now at his side by the
door, the wolf as tall as a pony. Varik’s sword
rested against Fenrys’s throat.
Cairn gripped her chains, tugging her
against his chest as they walked toward the
guards, the wolf. “You make a move, and he
dies.”
Aelin didn’t tell him she wasn’t entirely
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