I was just looking for you.”

The two princes stared at each other, one gold and one silver, one her twin and one her soul-bonded.

joy so complete it was pain.

Rowan said, “I’m blood-sworn to you—which means several things, one of which being that I don’t particularly care for the questioning of others, even your cousin.”

It was with no small amount of horror that she found Dorian strolling toward them.

“You let them do this!” Asterin bellowed.

Stones were eternal—flowers were not.

She’d taken him out to hunt demons. And yet this task, whatever she had done, required even him to be kept in ignorance.

“Ten years ago, my parents were murdered. My father was executed on a butchering block in front of thousands. But my mother … My mother died defending Aelin Galathynius, the heir to the throne of Terrasen. She bought Aelin time to run. They followed Aelin’s tracks to the frozen river, where they said she must have fallen in and drowned.