An Empire of Darkness and Fire: Book 1 of the page turning dark Romantasy trilogy MYRINA by Karen A. Moon

Author:Karen A. Moon [Moon, Karen A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

Arustling sound startled me out of my sleep. Had I dozed off again? In retrospect, staying awake when you'd been up all night wasn't that easy. I thought it would be easier to compensate for the lack of sleep during the day without being noticed. But here, too, I was proven wrong.

Already for breakfast, my brothers had appeared, and this time, Chris was the one who had invited me for a walk in Central Park. However, we did not discuss our training and the Amazons because the park was surprisingly crowded. There was nowhere to retreat, not even to the secret cave in The Rumble.

When I finally returned from the walk, I wanted to go straight to the shower and lie on the bed. Then, it was my father who stopped me from the plan. He told me it had been a while since I had worked on my embroidery and that I could do it today. I was aware that Dad was only pointing this out to me because it was part of a woman's masquerade in this world to have new needlework pieces to show regularly. I rammed the needle into my fingers a few times while half asleep, and the purple flower didn't turn out very nice.

Now that I was finally lying on my eagerly awaited bed and surrendering to sleep, this rustling sound came.

I sleepily rubbed my face and blinked at the sunshine falling directly through the large window into my room. Aza stood by my wardrobe and put the laundry in the dresser.

"That tired, Miss?" the girl asked without turning to me.

"Yeah, I must have fallen asleep." My voice was a little scratchy from the brief, deep sleep I had slipped into as soon as I lay down. Quickly, I cleared my throat.

"I didn't sleep well last night. Then there was the walk in Central Park, which was more exhausting than I expected," I tried to explain why I was lying on the bed in the middle of the day, entirely out of it.

"I'm done here," she told me, standing up and picking up the basket from the floor. "Then you can go back to sleep. I'll make sure you're not disturbed again until dinner."

Quickly, she went to the door, and just before she opened it, my eyes fell on her face. I immediately jumped up and ran to her. I stared at the blue-green bruise on her right cheek with wide eyes.

"What happened there?" I asked, upset. Aza, however, tried to avoid me and slip out through the door into the hallway. At the last moment, I held her back by the arm and shut the room door again.

Promptly, I looked at her.

"Please tell me, Aza," I begged her. An uncertain smile was on her lips.

"I ran into a shelf this morning," she stammered with lowered lids.

I stared at her in disbelief. "Are you sure a piece of furniture caused this?" I eyed the injury suspiciously.

"Quite sure," the young woman replied, pressing the basket tighter against her body and finally lifting her eyes to observe me.

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