Captive Wildfire: A Dark Paranormal Reverse Harem Romance (The Accursed Saga Book 3) by Eva Brandt

Author:Eva Brandt [Brandt, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2019-06-30T05:00:00+00:00

“That was stupid, Pierce. What made you think you could get away with betraying us?”

I slumped against the back of my chair and stared up at the ceiling, ignoring the figure of my captor. “I never intended to betray you and you know it,” I replied. When I’d first woken up in this room, I’d almost been crippled by the fear of what he’d do to me. Now, I was just angry and exasperated. “What are you trying to prove by torturing me? You have to let me go. You need me to make sure the ritual works.”

A strong hand landed on my shoulder, the hold so tight I couldn’t help but flinch. “Don’t be so arrogant, Pierce. I’ve given you everything you have in this life. I can take it away just as easily.”

“Oh, I’m sure that’s true,” I replied. “It’s not your ability I doubt, but your willingness to go through with such a drastic step.”

Fuck you very much, I wanted to say. Fuck you and your hypocrisy, your cruelty and your lies. Honestly, I was better off telling Lucienne about the whole thing and letting her make a decision about it.

But it was too late for that. My hands were tied. Even if I hadn’t been forced into a corner by the desire to help Lucienne, my whole family still owed Louis a debt, one we could only repay through our blood, our magic, and our fealty. I couldn’t defy him without paying the price.

“Do you really think I would care if you died?” Lucienne suddenly asked. “You used me for your own self-satisfaction and pleasure. I’d rejoice in your pain.”

I opened my eyes and faced the recreation of my worst fears, shaped as my beautiful soulmate. “Nice try, but Lucienne would never say that.”

“You don’t know me very well.” The fake Lucienne laughed. “I’ve said and done far worse things.”

“That’s a lie,” I replied, increasingly irritated by Louis’s insistence to use the illusion of my soulmate’s body. “Lucienne isn’t Dahud. She’s not the person you want her to be.”

Lucienne’s image vanished, replaced by that of her father. “Oh, but she is. Otherwise, we wouldn’t all be here in the first place. You’re fooling yourself if you think she’s any different now that she was in her past life.”

“I’m not fooling myself at all. I just don’t care. It’s Lucienne that I know, and I’ve seen her kindness and gentleness. Whatever she used to be, she’s changed.”

Truth be told, I didn’t believe that. I’d seen shadows of her old self in her eyes, in the magic she could barely control. But at the same time, I refused to let her lose herself to that, to the person she’d been. If all of us only saw her as Dahud, Lucienne would fade away completely. Dahud would come back, terrible and fierce, just like she had been more than a millennium ago.

Louis snapped his fingers and the bindings holding me strapped to the chair loosened. “You’re a stupid boy, you know that? How did someone like you end up my daughter’s soulmate? I must be cursed too.

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