Page 38 of What Whispers in the Dark (Promises of the Marked)

I t wasn’t that touch that had her moaning. Washing over her in one blissful wave. It certainly wasn’t the reminder of Garrik’s hands in the throne room, brushing along her skin while the princess scowled, hovering over her every drunken thought.

At least she tried to convince herself of such.

No . Right now, it was the very fact she was floating in a near-perfect pool of a Stars Eternal dream.

That bath…

It should be a sin to have something feel so extraordinary.

This bonus chapter is set at the end of Chapter Thirty-three after the Shadow Order suffered their first dinner in Kadamar.

There, they encountered the forward Princess Erissa and Garrik’s rival, Prince Ezander, the eldest male heir to Land and Growth.

Alora is back in her rooms, feeling a little tipsy after Garrik saw her safely returned.