Lords & Thieves: Chapter Seven
The prequel arc of ✨The White City✨ — a weekly serialized urban fantasy series
Previously in The White City:
They managed to successfully break into the top secret archives beneath the lake
So did someone—or rather, something—else
“Elena.”
The cool night air filled her lungs and made tears of relief spring to her eyes. They were out. They made it out.
No thanks to whatever, whoever, the hell that was.
“Here.” She shrugged off her sweater and wrapped it around the astrolabe before thrusting it at the man trying to keep up with her furious pace away from him. “Take it. I did my job. I’m done.”
“Elena.”
She spun around to yell at him, scream at him, maybe even kick him in the shins.
But she didn’t.
She couldn’t.
In the darkness of the quiet lake shore, where they’d managed to slip out of the facility undetected and dodge the security lights of both museums, it was easier to see who Cade really was.
No.
What he really was.
