Chapter 701. Fire and Ice

Maeve

I… I knew better than this.

I knew the second I slipped out of our hotel room, chasing that vibration creeping through every surface in the building, that Soren was going to be absolutely ticked off, but I couldn’t help it.

There’s something about my power that’s drawn to sound, as strange as it seems. Like a beacon, the music I heard when I’d been taking a bath wrapped its talons around the traces of magic still left in my system and tugged, hard, begging me to follow, to let go.

I remember the night of Brie’s elopement as I side-step through the crowd in Soren’s direction, ignoring the curious hands reaching to graze my sweater before pulling back, like they can’t believe I’m here, their princess, their soon to be queen, and I’d just been dancing like mad on a table for all of them to see.

That night after the ceremony, Blake told me something that stuck in my brain like a piece of gum, forever ingrained in my memory. Find something that shuts y