The Everlasting

The Everlasting

Author: Alix E. Harrow Listening Length: 13h 29m
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From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart. Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s grea...

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Chapter 22

I HAD BEEN afraid you wouldn’t remember me, but of course you did. We’ve done this too many times to forget, you and me.

I stood with my hand against the yew, breath misting in the cold, heart stuttering. I waited without turning for the metal slither of sword leaving sheath, the kiss of steel against my nape.

It never came. Dry needles snapped beneath your boots as you approached.

Your footsteps—always so swift and sure—were clumsy now, shuffling through the frost. At my back you paused, close enough that I could feel the heat of you.