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A shudder ran through me as a memory of that night surged. 

‼️ spoilers

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“It has to be done,” the faceless man said. “You know what will happen.” 
“She’s but a child—” 
“And she will be the end of everything.” 
“Or she is just the end of them. A beginning—” 
~~~~~

I stepped back, my heart thumping. “A beginning of a new era,” I whispered, finishing what Coralena had said to… 

Malik watched me, and my stomach twisted with nausea. Casteel’s arm encircled my waist as he pressed into me from behind. 

“Poppy?” He lowered his head to mine. “What is it?” My skin kept flashing from hot to cold as I stared at Casteel’s brother, but I didn’t see him. I saw the man with shadows for a face. The cloaked figure. 

The Dark One.

“I remember everything,” I said, and the room steadied. I steadied as I focused on Malik. “Why? Why didn’t you do it, then? Finish it?”

“Apparently, killing a child was a line I could not cross.”

“You’re the Dark One,” Casteel said in that deceptively soft way of his. I swung to him, and I should’ve paid attention to him sooner. If I hadn’t been caught up in my discoveries, I would’ve sensed the void of icy rage forming beside me. “You led the Craven to the inn in Lockswood. You went there to kill her.”

“The Craven followed the trail of blood I left behind,” he admitted. “It was the only way I knew I’d get past Coralena and Leo.”

Casteel’s eyes were a bright gold, and his voice—gods, his voice was smooth and laden with power. A whisper that was a boom had his words falling over my skin and filling the room. “Pick up a dagger, Malik.”

Casteel, Poppy and Malik - From Blood and Ash (A War of Two Queens) 

Author Jennifer L. Armentrout

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