Awakening Angel_A Dark Paranormal Reverse Harem Romance by Eva Brandt

Author:Eva Brandt [Brandt, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eva Brandt
Published: 2019-03-22T05:00:00+00:00

Ten

Not Guilty

Lucienne

When I had agreed to follow the instructions of the mysterious voice, I had expected to be given some actual information on how to leave this place and how to find the soulmate I was supposed to rescue. I had expected to embark on a daring mission of exploring this strange castle I was in, dodging the blank-faced psychopathic elves as I navigated the labyrinthine corridors of my prison.

Apparently, that would have been a little too straightforward, and the first thing the voice did after taking in my thoughts was to laugh at me. “Don’t be ridiculous. This isn’t a movie or a video game and the Palasion isn’t a prison. Well, not exactly. In any case, not everything is about glorious quests. Sometimes, all you really need to do is provide proof that you’re right.”

“What does that even mean?” I asked, abandoning all hope that anything in my life would make sense. “How am I supposed to provide proof I’m right when I don’t even know what I’m supposed to be right about?”

Sure, I realized that the approach of the Accursed was wrong, but I didn’t have an actual argument to question it beyond “hey, it’s not okay to kill this guy just because we happened to meet and touch.” I doubted I could prove something that was, in essence, a moral and ethical argument to a nation of people who didn’t have feelings and only cared about their rules.

In that respect, at least, I was right, and the voice proceeded to elaborate on my train of thought. “Indeed. The Alarians follow the rules their first king put into place to the letter. Anything different is severely punished, and exceptions are made very rarely. But that is precisely why it is easy to circumvent the law if you know what to do.”

Well, that told me absolutely nothing. “I still don’t follow any of this. Small words, for the stupid human, please.”

“It’s quite simple. The Soulmate Protection Dictate does indeed exist to keep Accursed from touching and bonding with their soulmates. However, the dictate applies only to humans, not to other paranormals.”

My mouth fell open as I took that in. “But... That’s hardly fair. Why do other paranormals get to keep their soulmates while those of humans are killed?”

“Politics, mostly. If you ask an Alarian about it, they’ll probably tell you that it’s because other species have some kind of defense against the curse. But the truth is the rest of the paranormal races weren’t that happy with the idea of the Pures taking over soulmate law enforcement, so they refused to allow High King Alaric to include them in the dictate.”

And there it was, the double standard and the evidence of what I had been thinking about before. I clenched my fists in frustration. “In other words, they got a choice and we didn’t, because they were powerful, while we were not.”

“Pretty much. Don’t misunderstand. Alaric was in the right. The curse actually does affect everyone. It’s just that a non-human will be less prone to die a horrible death shortly after meeting his or her mate.

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