CHAPTER 24

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🧇NINA P.O.V🧇

ELEVEN BELLS AND QUARTER CHIME

When Matthias opened the door to Nina's cell, she hesitated for the
briefest moment.

She couldn't help it.

As long as she lived, she would
never forget Matthias' face at that window, how cruel he'd seemed, or the doubt that had sprung up in her heart.

She felt it again, looking at him
standing in the doorway, but when he held his hand out to her, she knew
they were done with fear.

She ran to him, and he swept her up in his arms.

He buried his face in her hair. She felt his lips move against her ear
when he said, "I never want to see you like this again."

"Do you mean the dress or the cell?"

A laugh shook him.

"Definitely the cell." Then he cupped her face in his hands.

"Jer molle pe oonet. Enel mörd je nej afva trohem verretn."

Nina swallowed hard.

She remembered those words and what they truly meant.

I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from
this oath.

It was the vow of the drüskelle to Fjerda. And now it was Matthias' promise to her.

She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in
response.

Instead, she spoke the truth.

"If we make it out of here alive, I'm
going to kiss you unconscious."

"Now you make me feel bad about being single." said Bhagya from behind them.

Nina laughed.

A grin split Matthias' beautiful face.

She couldn't wait to see the real blue of his eyes again.

"Yul-Bayur is in the vault," he said.

"Let's go."

As Nina raced down the hall after Matthias and Bhagya, the clanging bells of Black Protocol filled her ears.

If Brum had known about her, then chances were the other drüskelle did, too.

She doubted it would be long before they came looking for their commander.

"Please tell me Kaz hasn't gone missing again," she said as they hurtled down the corridor.

"I left him in the ballroom. We're to meet him by the ash."

"Last time I looked, it was surrounded by drüskelle."

"Maybe Black Protocol will take care of that."

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