Chapter 478

• She pushed off him and got back to looking. On the back of the throne? No. On the walls? Hundreds of big black spikes, and plenty of them held dangling tiny chains, some tipped with amber stones like the one around Mia's neck. No keys, though.
• "You... what? You... Why?"
• "Why kill her? Because she was going to torture me, break me, turn me into a slave, anything and everything she could to turn me into a tool! She's worse than you know! Than Kas knows!" She ran around the throne twice. No luck. "Why leave? Because I have to find my brother! He's out there and I have to find him! And I'm going to use Vinicius to do it!"