Chosen by Nina Croft

Author:Nina Croft [Croft, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Breathless Press
Published: 2011-02-21T07:00:00+00:00

She reached out a hand to Cassandra. “You must know some way. I have to get back, now! I have to save her.”

Tallon forced his guilt down, and made his tone harsh. “Don’t be a fool. It’s not possible. She’s in the dungeons beneath the keep.” There was nothing for Shayla on Arroway now, but death. She needed to understand. “Take the Witch’s advice. Make a new life for yourself here. Forget Arroway and your mother.”

Shayla froze, her mouth tightening into a harsh line. “What is it with you two?” she asked, her voice vibrating with anger. “How can you even think I could forget the woman who risked everything for me?”

She spun away from them. Her small fists clenched at her side. When she swung back around, her face showed grim determination.

“Have neither of you any sense of what is right?” She glared at Cassandra, fierceness in every rigid line of her small body. “How can you live here so complacently while your sisters suffer on Arroway? Mutilated, you said, yet you calmly talk of making a ‘good life’ here.”

Cassandra opened her mouth to speak but Shayla had whirled from her and now stalked across to stand in front of Tallon. She only came up to his shoulder and had to tilt her head to look him in the face. “And you!”

Tallon raised an eyebrow. He had no clue what was coming.

“You,” she continued. “You know The Order is wrong. I know you do, else you wouldn’t have helped Leah and the others. Yet, you don’t stand up and speak out against a system that is evil. How can you stand by and watch Arroway die?” She dashed a hand up, rubbed at her eyes, which were bright with unshed tears. Her body sagged, shoulders drooping in misery. “You captured my mother. You gave her to The Order. How could you?”

Tallon watched in dismay as she turned from him. He wanted to speak, to tell her he had done it for Arroway, to defend himself and then to give comfort, wrap his arms around her, and promise it would be all right. But he could do nothing.

One of the reasons he’d taken the job as Enforcer was because it got him out into the world and away from the confines of the Order, where life had become almost unbearable. Then they had sent him after Shayla and her mother. They had told him both the mother and daughter were evil, and that their magic was draining Arroway of power. And he’d known that something was happening with their world, so he’d agreed. Only when he’d seen Shayla had his doubts risen up to taunt him.

How could someone who felt so right be a thing of evil?

Now he wanted desperately for a chance to put things right, but all he could do was watch as Shayla walked from the room, leaving him alone with the dark-haired Witch. He looked at her warily. She was not like any Witch he had met before.

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