Chosen (The Time Guardian Book 1) by Scarlett Strange

Author:Scarlett Strange [Strange, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

“Raven, you promised!” Zhang’s accusatory voice made me wince as he kneeled, surrounded by darkness, tiny bodies scattered around him. I recognized the three little girls from my last visit, but instead of hiding shyly behind him, they lay at his feet, dead eyes staring into nothing. “You liar! You only care about yourself, and that’s why you’ll die alone!”

“I didn’t lie!” I shouted, taking an angry step toward him. One of the girls’ hands twitched, her dead eyes fixating on me. Blue and broken, her lips formed a single word.

Liar.

“I’m so disappointed, Raven,” Kane’s voice made me look up to find him standing with a hand on Zhang’s shoulder, his face even hollower than I remembered. Flies flickered around his head, landing on his eyes and lips as if he was dead meat for them to feast on. “Until the last moment, I hoped that we’d find some goodness in you, but I was wrong.”

I opened my mouth to argue, to tell them I gave them that food and would have given them the rest if I hadn’t ended up in that other world, but the words wouldn’t come.

“You forgot about us,” Zhang spat, baring his teeth as blood seeped from the edges of his mouth.

Another figure strode past, stepping over hands and legs with her torn clothes hanging limp from her bruised body. Sasha stopped just a few steps away from me, holding a rusty pipe in one hand, blood dripping from the edge of the metal. The scars on her face deepened, turning even more sinister as she sneered.

“I’ve warned you, she only cares about herself! She wouldn’t bat an eye if we died. I think she’ll even be glad.” A smile appeared on her cracked lips, but her eyes were full of disdain. “They came back for you, and when they didn’t find you, they killed everyone. I could have saved myself by running away, but I cannot watch children get butchered. I’m not a monster like you, Raven!”

“Shut up!” I screamed, taking another step back. The bodies around them rose to their feet with awkward, unsteady movements. Glassy eyes, twisted limbs, and open wounds marked them, but as one, they strode toward me with hungry eyes.

Giant hands made of pure darkness reached from behind me, wrapping me in an unbreakable embrace. I tossed and fought, trying to break free from the hold, so when they finally let go, I fell heavily to my knees.

The throne room swam into my view, with Sadon sitting up on his high seat, looking even more smug than usual. The rest of his court had gathered around me, broken into groups that circled the furniture brought in from the night of the feast. All tables were empty except for one.

Pulling the pipe out of his mouth, Jonah studied me from head to toe, his brows furrowing. His entire family sat with him, eating a pathetic meal out of metal cans like the ones we had in Boston. Their warm, awed expressions had warped into masks of anger and disgust.

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