loveatwhatcost
"You locked me in a cage, Astrid," he whispered, the tip of his wand pressing against the racing pulse at my throat. His eyes were hollow, feral, and completely devoid of the boy I used to know.
"Did you really think I wouldn't bite when I got out?"
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Astrid Adams did the right thing. When Sebastian Sallow used the Killing Curse on his own blood, she made the agonizing choice to turn him over to the Ministry. She thought she was saving him from destroying his soul entirely, but instead, she condemned the boy she loved to the Dementors of Azkaban.
She thought the nightmare was over. She was wrong.
Now returning for her Sixth Year, Hogwarts is thrown into lockdown. A massive, violent breakout has shattered Azkaban, and Sebastian is the Ministry's most wanted fugitive. But Sebastian hasn't fled the country. He's hiding in the shadows of the Undercroft, starving, haunted, and burning with dark magic. And he's come straight for the girl who betrayed him.
Ominis Gaunt warned her that Sebastian was a lost cause. The Aurors patrolling the castle corridors will send Astrid to a cell of her own if they catch her. But as Astrid is blackmailed into harboring the fugitive she created, the razor-thin line between hatred and obsession begins to blur. Every venomous argument in the dark ends in breathless proximity. Every threat feels like a desperate, broken plea.
He is an escaped murderer out for revenge. She is the war hero who locked him away. Protecting him will cost Astrid her future, her safety, and her sanity.
But letting him go might just destroy them both.
I will try to put out a chapter every week!