He had to hand it to his Starboy, he did a pretty good job handling his shock, considering the violence he’d just committed.

Jace had been expecting to be the one to kill the King himself, if he was being honest. He thought Aster was going to key him up, disable him, but not deal the final blow. And the shock that took hold of him afterward was completely understandable—Jaceron himself had suffered similar shock the first few times he’d taken a life, even if the lives he ...