The Cost of Nine Stars

sacred power that cost me a piece

each fading after I resurrected Ethan, th

mes, from drug overdoses to twisted car wrec

tion struck as Ethan, now a desperate heir, demanded I perfor

ished, yet he sneered, refusing to believe me,

d girlfriend, publicly "cleanse" me a

lion, ready to force a miracle I couldn't perf

abuse, and the terrifying emptiness

o the fact that I had abso

one gilded cage to another, fac

elf even if it meant death, I bolted from the stable

m the brink, and for the first time in forever, I saw th