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no longer shone.

I gasped, clinging onto him and my sister tighter than before.

“I have no idea,” Tory answered, showing us the bare patch of skin on her arm where Lionel’s star sign had once been branded too. Hopeful tears filled my eyes as I prayed some good had come from this day.

A flare of power rushed through the handprint Lavinia had left on my bicep and I held in a gasp as I clutched it, biting my lip as the ominous feeling of the curse radiated through me.

Orion pressed his mouth to my temple then spoke in my ear. “Whatever she’s done, I’ll do everything in my power to fix it, Blue.” My heart squeezed as I leaned in to his touch, hardly able to believe we’d both gotten out of that pit alive.

Lionel roared, wheeling through the sky as he spotted us and took chase with Lavinia riding on his back and an endless expanse of shadows billowed out around her.

I swore as I threw all of my magic into our combined shield, ready to fight if I had to while praying we could outrun them.

Xavier flew beside us, his wings beating furiously as he kept pace with Dante and stayed within the protection of our shield.

Dragon fire spewed toward us as the Dragons loyal to him raced into formation at his back and we found ourselves fleeing from an entire army of them with only our combined shield standing between us and death.

“Get beyond the palace wards!” Tory cried in encouragement as Dante raced through the sky and Dragon fire bled over our shield, making it quake and rattle as we fought to maintain it.

The tingle of magic ran over us as we made it beyond the wards and I turned my head, seeing Caleb ready with a pouch of stardust.

Caleb threw the stardust into the air ahead of us and Lionel roared angrily as Dante flew us into the particles and we were tugged away by the stars.

Dante dropped several feet as we arrived in a different, blissfully silent sky somewhere far away from the palace and relief crashed through me as I clung to my sister and she gripped my hand tightly in return.

We raced up into the clouds with Xavier flying alongside us and Dante released a mournful roar which I felt down to the pit of my soul.

Tears blurred my vision for everyone lost today. And as we soared into the endless blue sky, I didn’t know where we were going, only that we couldn’t go back to Zodiac Academy. We couldn’t go anywhere that Lionel would find us. The Heirs had stood against him, we’d all shown our cards. And the Dragon King would have every loyal Fae and Nymph in Solaria hunting for us by nightfall.

We were all fugitives now.

And if any of us were ever caught, the price would be death.

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__Author Note__

Heeeeeey, how was that? Are you feeling calm and collected? Did you just release a big breath, look up to the sky and thank the stars for keeping all your faves alive? So far. When Caleb was tempting fate did you think he was about to become Vampire sushi? I hope you kept the faith. You know we’d never do you dirty like that…right?

On a scale from stumble off of a kerb to faceplant off of a mega cliff of doom how did we do? Third floor splat onto concrete? Tripping over in front of all your peers and landing face first in a plate of Kipling cake? Somewhere in between?

There was some fun in here though too, right? We honestly had a lot of fun writing some of the stuff in this one (and yeah okay we cried a bit writing others but that’s okay). Who wants to see a dijazzle in person? Did you die inside for poor Xavier when they all started falling on the floor? Do you think he should rock the banana piercing in future? That would have to win him some Dom points wouldn’t it?

And we gave you a wedding too. Who doesn’t like a wedding? We knew you’d be hoping for one and you can’t say we didn’t deliver.

See, we’re nice to you. So you can totally forgive us for a smidge of heartache, a curse or two, the shadow bitch, a couple of torture scenes, a little bit of emotional trauma, Catalina’s fucked up life, Lionel, the Daddy love, that Star Crossed thingy, Geraldine’s fiancé, Orion getting stabbed, Tory getting stabbed, Darius getting stabbed, Darcy getting stabbed… and Washer.

Ahem.

But on a slightly more serious note, we really do want to thank you so much for continuing down the fictional rabbit hole with us once again (I’m assuming this isn’t the first book you’ve read by us because choosing book 6 in a series would be a bit of a mind fuck but if you did then no judgement). The road to this place in our careers has been a seriously crazy ride and we couldn’t have gotten here without your support and continued love for our stories and each and every one of you means so much to us.

2020 has been an interesting year for all of us and I know we are all hoping to see a lot of change for 2021 but I hope in the meantime we’ve helped you escape into books from time to time and that we haven’t caused too much heartache.

But if we have then feel free to come shout at us about it in our reader group. Seriously, we thrive on the abuse, the more we get the more ammunition we have to throw at our characters so it’s a win-win. Unless you have some objection to us killing off fictional people or something…

As always, we adore you and hope you think we’re mildly likeable too. Book 7 won’t be too long in the making, so go grab yourself a buttery bagel and relax while you can because it’s sure to be one hell of an ending.

Love, Susanne & Caroline

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