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Back Seasons of Chaos
Chapters (70)
  1. Dedication
  2. Prologue
  3. 1
  4. 2
  5. 3
  6. 4
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  62. 60
  63. 61
  64. 62
  65. Epilogue
  66. Acknowledgments
  67. About the Author
  68. Books by Elle Cosimano
  69. Back Ad
  70. About the Publisher

Kai slides her feet to the floor. She closes her magazine and leans close enough for me to see the sleepless shadows under her eyes. “I hate to break it to you, but this isn’t Doug, Captain of the Guard, we’re talking about. We’re talking about Time, Inevitability, and the elemental power of all four seasons at the fingertips of a bully with a god complex. Doug’s entire life goal is to use that power against you, so you’d better come up with something better than ‘Relax, I’ve got this.’”

“I forgot you’re an expert when it comes to plotting murder and acts of treason.”

“I didn’t murder anyone!” The person in front of me turns to peer at us through the gap between the seats. Kai glares at her until she turns away. “And I didn’t commit treason,” she whispers.

“No? Then why don’t you tell me how Doug managed to slaughter Gaia and Lyon, take all their power, and trash the Observatory all on his own?” Back at the villa, Kai said it wasn’t too late to make the right choice. Killing me might have been her first bad choice, but I’m guessing it wasn’t her last. She was there in the room when Lyon and Gaia were murdered. And Doug confided at least part of his plan to her, which makes her an accomplice. Lyon might have been willing to give her a shot at redemption, but that doesn’t mean I have to trust her.

She presses back against the side of the plane. “I didn’t know he would kill them. I never would have helped him if I did. He told me he wanted to steal Ananke’s magic so we could fight our way out and escape. He didn’t tell me the rest of his plan.”

“And neither will I. I’m not stupid enough to trust the girl who turned me into a walking kabob.”

“You don’t want my protection? Fine,” she says, “face him yourself. But you shouldn’t go in there without a weapon. I know someone in London who can—”

“I have a weapon. It’s waiting for me in a glass cage in Lyon’s office. And the first thing I plan to do when I get there is let it out.” The only concrete goal I have is to find my smaze before Doug catches up to me. Painful, toxic, tainted . . . I don’t care. I’ll take it all back if it means saving—

My stomach drops. I grab the armrests, pressing back in my seat as the plane lurches through a patch of turbulence. Kai’s hand clamps down on mine. I shoot her a look as the cabin shakes, and she jerks it away.