Feyre Snow clung to Nesta’s hair as we stared at each other across the threshold. Pink tinged her cheeks from the frigid night, but her face remained solemn. Cold as the snow-dusted cobblestones. I opened the door a bit wider. “We’re in the sitting room.” “I saw.” Conversation, tentative and halting, carried to the foyer. … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 20

Feyre Azriel won. His one-hundred-ninety-ninth victory, apparently. The three of them had entered the cabin an hour later, dripping snow, skin splotched with red, grinning from ear to ear. Mor and I, snuggled together beneath a blanket on the couch, only rolled our eyes at them. Rhys just dropped a kiss atop my head, declared … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 19

Feyre “You look well,” I said to Lucien when we’d settled in the armchairs before the fire, Elain perched silently on the couch nearby. Lucien warmed his hands in the glow of the birch fire, the light casting his face in reds and golds—golds that matched his mechanical eye. “You as well.” A sidelong glance … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 18

Feyre The glare of sunlight on snow filtering through our heavy velvet curtains awoke me on Solstice morning. I scowled at the sliver of brightness and turned my head away from the window. But my cheek collided with something crinkly and firm. Definitely not my pillow. Peeling my tongue from the roof of my mouth, … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 17

Rhysand That afternoon, Cassian dumped his leather bag on the narrow bed against the wall of the fourth bedroom in the town house, the contents rattling. “You brought weapons to Solstice?” I asked, leaning against the door frame. Azriel, setting his own bag on the bed opposite Cassian’s, threw our brother a vague look of … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 16

Feyre I had yet to find or even come up with a vague idea for what to give Rhysand for Solstice. Mercifully, Elain quietly approached me at breakfast, Cassian still passed out on the couch in the sitting room across the foyer and no sign of Azriel where he’d fallen asleep on the couch across … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 15

Rhysand Even with workers seldom halting their repairs, the rebuilding was still years from being finished. Especially along the Sidra, where Hybern had hit hardest. Little more than rubble remained of the once-great estates and homes along the southeastern bend of the river, their gardens overgrown and private boathouses half sunken in the gentle flow … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 14

Feyre My sister didn’t have drinking companions. As far as I knew, she went out alone, and made them as the night progressed. And every now and then, one of them went home with her. I hadn’t asked. Wasn’t even sure when the first time had been. I also didn’t dare ask Cassian if he … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 13

Feyre “What the hell is that?” Cassian was grinning the next evening as he waved a hand toward the pile of pine boughs dumped on the ornate red rug in the center of the foyer. “Solstice decorations. Straight from the market.” Snow clung to his broad shoulders and dark hair, and his tan cheeks were … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 12

Rhysand It was Spring, and yet it wasn’t. It was not the land I had once roamed in centuries past, or even visited almost a year ago. The sun was mild, the day clear, distant dogwoods and lilacs still in eternal bloom. Distant—because on the estate, nothing bloomed at all. The pink roses that had … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 11