Condemned (Becoming the Demon Queen Book 2) by Charlene Hartnady & BE Brouillard

Author:Charlene Hartnady & BE Brouillard [Hartnady, Charlene & Brouillard, BE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-27T23:00:00+00:00

Quinn

My heart feels like it’s been shattered into a million pieces. When I breathe it’s like shards of glass fill my chest. I can’t remember the last time I hurt so badly.

Or maybe I do.

That day I sat in a cold, empty room, staring at a stranger telling me I’d never see my mom and dad again. I’d been so little, my feet hadn’t even reached the floor from the chair I’d been sitting in. A small bag of my possessions on my lap. A teddy clutched in one hand. And a future filled with years of loneliness and misery lying ahead of me. An orphan at four with no family to speak of. No one to take me in. A miracle child they called me. I came away from a major car accident without so much as a scratch. Now I know why. They died saving me.

His fault. He took them from me! Him and these people who rule this world I supposedly belong in. A world I want no part of anymore. I don’t care if it’s not safe to go back home. At least I know who I am there. More importantly, I know who the people around me are. Gina. Emma. The others are simply folks going about their lives. Not like these infernal creatures with all their plotting and scheming. And dishonesty. If I’d thought Jesse’s lies were bad, Thorston’s are worse. So much worse!

This is the worst kind of betrayal.

And he’d had the nerve to bring me here to be his mate?

“Mate! Hah! What crap is that about anyhow?” I mutter under my breath as I storm through the wide hallways of the palace. Hopefully in the direction of the door that leads out. I sense people scuttling around me. Diabolon appears moments before I charge out the door, but I fling him away with another of those fireballs I hit Thorston with. He yells and flies back through the air.

Oh, gosh! Did I kill him?

Do I care?

Argh! I do!

I glance back over my shoulder in time to see him staggering to his feet, patting his flaming clothing down. He’s half-shifted into his demon form.

He’ll be fine.

Thorston will be too. There is a part of me that wishes I’d blown him to smithereens. Smashed him into a billion tiny pieces that would never be able to be put back together.

The way he did to me…to my heart.

He touched me, darn it! In ways, I’ve never imagined possible. For those brief, mind-numbing instants, my heart had sung for him. Reaching out for a love that’s been denied me all my life. Some part of me was aching for it, for him. My mate. The one written in the stars for me.

We’re not mates.

He lied! More than lied. And yet still had the nerve to try to convince me we could be together. We can never be together. Not after what he did.

I dash a tear away, clinging to the fury that has me striding through the palace to a door that bars my way.

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