I burrowed my face against his chest, soaking in the scent of ocean and burning leaves.Įveryone was watching, but it didn’t matter. He straightened, catching me by the waist as I looped my arms around his neck. I took off toward him, the dress streaming behind me in a river of crimson silk. The beat of his heart sounded just like mine. The twinkling lights from above lit the way to him, but I would’ve found him in the dark if necessary.

My legs felt weak as I took the first step.

A lopsided smile, full of mischief and playfulness, curved his lips as he bowed at the waist, extending his arm toward me. He stood there, dressed in a black tux cut to fit the hard lines of his body. I tried to breathe, but he had stolen not just my heart, but the very air I needed. The haunting melody the orchestra played slipped under my skin and sunk into my bones as the dancers parted. That had been the right choice.ĭancers slowed around me, their faces hidden behind dazzling bejeweled masks. This wouldn’t end well-not when we were surrounded by people and he was looking at me like that, but I couldn’t make myself leave. He stopped, lips parting as if the mere sight of me had rendered him incapable of doing anything else.

The lights in the ballroom caught each ripple in the fabric so that, with every step, I looked like I was blooming from fire. My hair was down, silky around my shoulders like the petals of an exotic flower. Once the gods have revealed themselves, unleashing their wrath, lives will be irrevocably changed… and destroyed.RED SILK CLUNG TO MY HIPS, TWISTING INTO A TIGHT bodice that accentuated my curves. One has been lying to her since the beginning. Awesome.īut as her birthday draws near, her entire world shatters with a startling revelation and she’s caught between love and Fate. If that’s not freaky enough, whenever Alex and Seth spend time “training”–which really is just Seth’s code word for some up-close and personal one-on-one time–she ends up with another mark of the Apollyon, which brings her one step closer to Awakening ahead of schedule. A long-forgotten, fanatical order is out to kill her, and if the Council ever discovers what she did in the Catskills, she’s a goner… and so is Aiden. History is on repeat, and things didn’t go so well the last time.Īlexandria isn’t sure she’s going to make it to her eighteenth birthday–to her Awakening.

Deity jennifer armentrout