Slices of Midnight Chapter 10
Pearce isn’t just a spider—he’s a vessel of venomous magic, bound to Marissa by ritual and fate. But his first bite doesn’t just hurt. It rips her open.
As it turned out, I didn’t need to name my new pet spider—or wonder about its gender. He was male. His name was Pearce. And he had called the Isle of Indamar home for over two centuries.
I learned this from a manual tucked inside my alchemy bag—a slim book of barely a hundred pages, detailing his history, his care, and his needs.
Pearce wasn…