io9 has an exclusive excerpt to share from the These Violent Delights author's sequel to Foul Lady Fortune.
Ice had frosted over Rosalind Lang’s bedroom window, drawing a bizarre shape that resembled a broken heart—the anatomical kind, with half-severed arteries stretching into the corners. Its edges were starting to melt, though, thawing under the first sunny day they had had in a while and dripping rivulets of condensation down the glass.Rosalind was watching the street below. She didn’t know how they expected her to leave without causing a fiasco.
With Fortune’s real face in the open, she could hardly continue her missions as per usual. She had been pacing her bedroom relentlessly these few weeks, drawing up plans and then tossing them out, knowing that she would be barred from acting upon them. She had already made the mistake of telling Jiemin that Alisa held Lady Hong’s last vial, a show of good faith while she begged for them to go after Orion, and yet that had achieved nothing except sending the Nationalists on the chase after Alisa.
Still… this was better than nothing. The Nationalists had made it clear that they had given up on Orion Hong.“He is one of your best agents,” Rosalind had yelled at Jiemin’s retreating back when he came with instructions to stay put. “How can you tell me there is absolutely nothing to be done?”“Even if—somehow—we physically remove him from his mother’s side, his mind has been altered to follow her every instruction.
“Damn you,” Rosalind muttered beneath her breath. She wasn’t sure who she was talking to. Dao Feng, maybe. Or the world at large for setting her in this role.On the street below, a car started to pull up alongside the reporters, stirring interest in the crowd. A girl tumbled out from the passenger seat in a flurry of pink tulle, coming into the building with her key and slamming the door closed before any of the reporters could follow suit.
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