An Aetheral Light: A 13 Realms Novel (The 13 Realms) by Kayla Barnett

Author:Kayla Barnett [Barnett, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter VIII

“Well?” Trace's voice broke into my thoughts. I was still sitting at the table. I hadn’t moved even after Elizabeth had disappeared. As I looked beyond Trace and out the large wall of windows I could see the city had descended into darkness without me even realizing it. I wondered why Nathaniel hadn’t come to check on me yet. Was he still busy with being king? What did a king do all day and night? I hadn’t a clue, but apparently it was time consuming.

“Well, what?” I asked, my voice low with a tinge of hardness.

“Have you decided what you're going to do?” he asked as he dropped into the chair next to mine. He dropped his hands on the table, his arms stretching out in front of me.

“Did you know?” I demanded as I narrowed my eyes at him. “What I was? What she wanted from me? What she wants me to do?”

“Of course, I knew what you were,” he said with a small shake of his head as if this should’ve been obvious. I guess it should’ve been. He had been hired to protect me, it would make sense that he knew exactly what I was. “As far as what Elizabeth wants from you, no. I mean I assumed she'd want something at some point. Why else keep you protected? Why else keep tabs on you at all, unless she was going to eventually want something from you. She never shared her intentions with me though. I can't imagine it being anything bad.”

“Yeah, she's so perfect,” I muttered darkly with a shake of my head. I chewed on my bottom lip as I stared out at the cityscape. “I don't even know if I want to be a part of the realms. I don't even know if I want to go through the hassle of taking some kind of trials.”

“What do you mean you don't want to be a part of the realms?” Trace demanded, even as my heart called me a liar for my words. My heart had already made the decision of what it wanted to do and was simply waiting for my brain to catch up with it. My brain, however, thought my heart was a moron for falling so completely and so quickly for a guy I hardly knew anything about.

“Why would I want to be?” I shot back, mostly for argument's sake. If it was one thing I knew how to do, it was how to argue. “This all started with me almost dying. Now it sounds like if I want to stay I have to almost die again to make it through these trials. Then if I succeed everyone will have full reign to try and manipulate me which seems to be the end goal for several just because of how close I am to Nathaniel. They couldn’t give a damn about me, just my proximity to Nathaniel. It seems like if I want my life back, if I want to

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