To Vanquish Darkness (Le Sombre #1)

Chapter 41

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1422 CH?TEAU DE CHINON, LOIRE VALLEY

A lba panted, sweat dripping down her face, her muscles straining as she faced Theo. She blinked from the light pouring through the arched windows behind him.

A smirk played on his lips. “That won’t be good enough.”

“This isn’t a fair fight,” she growled. She lunged at him, but he moved like smoke, fluid and impossible to predict.

“It won’t be tomorrow either.” He gripped her arm and twisted, sending her to the marble floor with a grunt.

She forced herself up as soon as he released her, gritting her teeth and forcing the tears in her eyes to retreat. Her chest felt like it might crack in two as she drove toward him for the hundredth time, and then the pressure suddenly released. It was as if she’d been drilling in the earth and had finally broken through the bedrock.

Energy surged through her, flooding every inch of her with raw strength. Theo moved, and Alba struck with a kick that connected, her foot slamming into his chest. The impact made her teeth rattle, and she dropped to the floor as Theo flew backward, his body slamming into the stone wall.

The force of it sent a shockwave through the room, and the stones behind him crumbled, dust and debris falling to the floor.

Theo lay on the ground a moment before pushing up and finding her eyes, the smirk wiped from his face. “That’s more like it.”