Winter's Ball by Giselle Ava (the mitten read aloud TXT) 📕

the intensity at which they emerged. She continued to watch the man with no eyes, who glided through the crowds, his red nobleman’s uniform brushing up against other nobility. He carried a wine glass and occasionally he sipped from it, despite it being nearly empty.

“Arrest that man,” she repeated urgently.

“I’m sorry...” Sir Tam started as he moved towards her and grabbed the hilt of his sword without drawing it. She felt his armour against her side, rough and cold.

Sarina darted from the spot, grabbing one of the other guards, who looked at her as if just awoken from a slumber. She pointed. “Arrest that man, for god’s sake!” A couple of guests now turned to check who had launched into the first violent yet expected tirade of the night.

“My lady...” muttered the guard.

There was a stir in the crowd. The man with no eyes took note and made a sudden dash. Sarina started to chase after him but then stopped. The man with no eyes fell and the crowd spread like ripples made from a rock hitting a deep puddle of blood. He tried to recover but instead was lifted up by Tasha Vasil and thrown into two guards.

“Incompetent idiots,” Tasha said to them.

A silence had befallen the great hall. Sir Tam had half-drawn his sword and was hovering close to Sarina. Tasha looked at her expectantly.

“I want that man sent to the dungeon,” Sarina said with no care for who was watching her, or of the unmistakable quaver in her voice. “Go!” she snapped.

Sir Tam was the only one who remained by her side. He nervously slid his sword back into its scabbard, the steel rasping against the inside walls.

Sarina stood there, unable to move, unable to properly process what she had just done, but she knew that it was the right choice. Or was it? There was no way he could be the very same man who had murdered her mother...And yet who else walked around with those hollowed-out eyes, with those glasses, the bald head but with those eyebrows?

But it seemed impossible...

Mikka ran up to her, his paws sliding across the floor as he attempted to stop. He looked up at her with wide eyes. “One minute I was gone—” he began.

“Lock down the whole city,” Sarina said.

“What?” Mikka reached for her hand but she snatched it away.

“Escort me to the dungeon so that I may speak to him.”

Neither Mikka nor Sir Tam said a word in response. Sarina glanced at her pocket watch one more time. It was eight fifty-nine and forty-eight seconds.

No Eyes

Book 2 of The Killing Night series

There is an intruder in Lavus City, a man with no eyes who Sarina remembers from that one night seven years back—the man who murdered her mother. Sarina assembles a council to deal with the sudden turn of events. Meanwhile, Tasha and Alyos search the city.

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