Burnt Devotion by Ethington Rebecca

Author:Ethington, Rebecca [Ethington, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Imdalind Press
Published: 2015-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

JOCLYN

Thirteen

I stared at her through the dim, multicolored lights that lined the roof of the cave. The small, multicolored bobbles followed their owners as we all walked through the dank cavern. While bright, the cave was too massive, full of too many sharp edges, and the light only gave everything jagged shadows that shivered with life as we moved. It was something that wasn’t necessarily wanted as I stared at the girl who had become my best friend faster than I could have thought possible. The girl I had trusted with pretty much every secret and had let into my life in spite of all the insecurities my father had built up in me by disappearing.

Wyn.

Except it wasn’t Wyn, based on what she had told me.

Or maybe it was.

I wasn’t very sure anymore.

I didn’t know what to say.

I mean … What do you say?

It had been two days since we had found ourselves moving endlessly through the depth of the cave. Two days of awkward small talk and growing agitation. It wasn’t until a few hours ago, when she had finally started talking, that everything had begun to make sense, no matter how confusing it still was.

I had no doubt in my mind that everything she had told me was true. I knew it. I knew it because I had seen it in the way her personality had changed since I had removed the curse from her—the way she moved, the way everyone interacted with her, and the way she seemed so buddy-buddy with Thom.

Okay, more than buddy-buddy, but I wasn’t going to tell her that, especially with what she had just revealed to me.

Suddenly, Thom’s outburst into her well-being in Italy all those months ago wasn’t so out of character.

A relationship. An assassin. A child.

I could only imagine how hard it must have been for her to tell me, how nervous she would have been about how I would react.

I needed her to know I understood that. She was still my friend, no matter what, no matter how hard it was to understand everything.

“Okay…” Or I could just say that.

I felt like an idiot the moment the word slipped out, something I was grateful that Wyn knew well enough to interpret the right way.

She only laughed with a rich sound that filled the confined space like honey as her arm draped over my shoulder the way she had done so many times before. The weight of her body and our differences in heights bogged me down so that my back arched uncomfortably.

“So, you’re a mother…?” That wasn’t any better than the dreaded ‘okay.’

“Yeah.” Her voice was dead and hollow, not surprising.

Leave it to me to pick out the most painful fact of her past to talk about.

At least I hadn’t chosen ‘you’re a whore’ or ‘how many people have you killed?’

Come to think of it, those might have been better, actually.

I stood up straight and looked to my friend as Ilyan’s magic filled me in a comfortable spiral that

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