Never Keep (Sins of the Zodiac #1)

Never Keep (Sins of the Zodiac #1)

Author: Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti Listening Length: 21h 10m

The dragons are lost. The elements are at war. Enlisting isn’t optional. And I’m falling for a man who wants me dead. I’m a wielder of hearts and summoner of corruption. Heir to nothing and born to a fool in the wrong damn month. But I’m also one of only two Fae in this divided land of hellions who might be startin...

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Chapter 15

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

W ater magic stirred in my veins like a rippling pool, and I only had to call on it to transform that pool into a tempestuous sea storm. I had always felt a connection to the ocean, and whenever I bathed in her warm waters, I knew it was where I belonged. But now that my magic had been Awakened, it was as if I carried her with me, from her turbulent, destructive fury to the gentle flow of a meandering river.

Water was the greatest element in this world, needed by all, and without it, every living thing would perish. Now that power was a part of me, but I still hadn’t tried to cast it.

My feet tracked heavily into the arena made specially for the Raincarvers’ Magical Trials, a wide, still pool filling most of the circular place. Six Reapers gazed down at me from their positions on a balcony perched high enough to observe me. This arena was an echo of the one I had taken my Combat Trial in apart from that mirror-like water. Wooden targets were perched upon the walls, and effigies of wooden creatures stood around the pool too.