The Ruined by Renée Ahdieh EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Renée Ahdieh
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THE RUINED PRINCE
The events of that afternoon along the riverbank was seared onto
Bastien’s memory like a brand. He returned to the scene as if it were a
daguerreotype brought to life.
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Chaos reigned around him, silver-tipped bullets flying through the twilit
sky. The fog from Sunan’s illusion began lifting, and a pack of werewolves
emerged from the tree line near the bridge linking the wintry land of the
Sylvan Wyld to its summery nemesis, the Sylvan Vale.
Bastien watched the wolves prowl from the frosted woods, intent on
severing the last threads of truce and crossing into the Vale unchecked. His
feet moved. He felt an irrepressible desire to strike out at them. To act,
rather than remain neutral.
From his experience, werewolves brought nothing but disaster. Striking
them down would be justified. But Bastien forced his feet to remain still.
Celine was on that bridge. If he acted from a place of recklessness, the
wolves’ retribution would be swift. So he stood immobile, caught between
action and indecision.
The next memory caused Bastien to press his eyes shut, his chest
tightening like a drum.
The daguerreotype in his mind flickered to life. Philippa Montrose darted
through the confusion, fighting to make her way over that same bridge to
Arjun Desai, without care or consideration to anything around her. Bastien
knew she saw only Arjun.
The werewolf who struck Pippa first was missing a front paw. Just like
Bastien’s sister, Émilie Saint Germain. The one he had banished to the
frozen wastelands in a foolish attempt at mercy.
In his mind’s eye, Bastien watched himself race toward the bridge. He
could no longer stand idle along the shore, hoping to remain above the fray.
Impossible choices enclosed him on all sides. Left him tangled in a thick
web of uncertainty.
It was not Bastien’s place to embroil himself in fey politics. Nor was it
his job to defend the downtrodden remains of the Winter Court against the
aggressions of the Summer Court.
But he would protect those he loved—his family—with everything he
possessed.
Pippa Montrose had become family. She was the treasured friend of
Bastien’s true love, Celine Rousseau. The cherished wife of his brother
Arjun Desai.
His heart in his throat, Bastien bent his head. In his mind, he watched the
consequences of his failure. That cursed second of indecision.
Without flinching, he bore witness to the final moments of Pippa
Montrose.
Bastien refused to turn away when the first of Pippa’s screams tore
through the air, her blood staining the white snow and splashing against the
mossy stone along the bridge. He listened to her thrash and flail as the pack
of wolves dragged her dripping body back toward the icy tree line. As their
howls faded to silence, the last of her cries ringing through the darkness.
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