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I wanted to kill him.

I could feel my temperature rising. The rage inside of me was begging for a release. I summoned the flames and instead of bursting into a ball of fire, I channeled it to my hands. My newly golden hair began flowing as if the wind was moving it, but I could see out of the corner of my eye that it was also covered in flames. I began stalking toward Adar, using my wings instead of my legs and he watched me while he ripped his sparring gloves off and threw them on the ground.

“What are you going to do? Burn me?” he said as he quickly came towards me.

I had my arms out, ready to grab him by the throat and burn him from existence, but he beat me to it. He grabbed my hands in his and said with a wide-eyed look of crazy in his eyes, “Sorry,Tinker Bell. I won’t burn.”

Oh. That’s why Bash sent Adar to train with me.

He kept his hands tightly gripped on mine and I looked down to see the flames covering his hands, but not one mark of burn showed.

I ripped my hands from him and said, “I could’ve died.” The wings I had summoned disappeared, and my feet hit the ground beneath me.

“Well, you didn’t,” he said as he continued to stare at me.

“What would Bash do if you killed me?” I asked.

“He’d probably kill me. But that is a better fate than having to watch his demise because he is being blinded by love.”

“I wouldn’t let anything happen to him. You can trust me, Adar.”

“You make him weak. No matter what you do, he will always be weaker when his first thought is to ensure your safety and not his own.”

I took a step back. I wasn’t as angry as I was hurt by what he had just said to me. He would never trust me. We would never be able to get along even if we spent the rest of our existence together due to our ties to Bash.

I needed to leave. I never wanted to see Adar again, even though I knew that would be impossible. But for right now, I needed to get away from him. I didn’t want him to see that what he said really had hurt me, because that is probably exactly what he wanted. I wanted to go back to my room and to forget what he said to me, even though I knew he was right.

My room. I just wanted to be in my room.

And a moment later, that’s exactly where I was standing.

I . . . I transferred. All of the trouble I just went through to figure out my gifts but transferring . . . something so rare that only the Sovereigns can do. I could just think of where I wanted to be and it was that easy.

“Violet.”

I turned around to Bash looking at me very confused. He must’ve known the moment I was back within the castle walls.

“I’m done training with Adar,” I said as I walked past him toward the bathroom to clean myself up.

“Are you okay?” he asked as he followed closely behind me.

“Yes,” I said. I pulled my shirt off over my head and threw it on the floor before taking my pants off and doing the same with them. I just wanted to forget about today.

“I-I need to go get Adar, but I’ll be right back.” I turned around to see him staring at my body. I knew exactly what he was thinking. He wanted to clean me himself. I walked up to him and ran my hand down his chest.

“You should leave him there,” I said as I continued to lower my hand. “Maybe one of those creatures you were talking about will take pity after seeing what he did to me and finish him off since I couldn’t.”

He took a step back, and his eyes darkened. “What did he do?”

“He threw me off the cliff.” As soon as the words left my mouth, Bash was gone. I couldn’t help but smile at what he might be doing to Adar right now.

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Chapter 41

Violet

Violent shaking woke me up. When I opened my eyes, Yara was hovering over me with fear in her eyes.

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