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Dark Velvet
Ember once more found herself in the place where she’d scorched the earth with her desperation.
She was alone. It was a solitude that radiated. Everyone had left her. She had no ill will about it. Marsh and Aylen did what they had to do. Aylen couldn’t have helped her, anyway. She’d only agreed to do so reluctantly, and with enough skepticism to melt Ember’s hopeful heart. It was a foolish thought to begin with. Only a Ravenwood could help another Ravenwood, and to get to one, she had to do something she’d never done before.
She had to fly.
He’d made it sound so simple, when they both knew it would be anything but for the girl who’d been raised a Blackwood. But something had shifted in their relationship. When they’d first met, Alasyr scoffed at the idea she could do an
