Dream King: An Enemies to Lovers Fantasy Romance (Realm of Night Book 1) by Elise Knight

Author:Elise Knight [Knight, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

The bile that was threatening earlier came to the surface, and I threw up on the forest floor, retching up all my disgust and anger and frustration. I couldn’t think about it anymore. Any of it. If I did, I’d only end up going mad with it all.

I was doing something about it. That’s why I was here. There was nothing I could do for that poor woman, but I could stop the millions of nightmares like it that would come in the future.

As I wiped my mouth with a shaky hand, my eyes snagged on what I could only describe as a pathway beneath my feet. The fallen leaves had been flattened by the footsteps of many people...or beasts, it was hard to tell. Relief welled up in me. In that moment, I didn’t care whoever—or whatever--flattened this pathway. A path means an end to the aimless walking. A destination. Perhaps that destination was the belly of a ginormous beast, but it was an end nonetheless. As I studied it, it became clear that one route curved around and would take me backward and to the left. The other way seemed more promising, so I took it, slowly this time.

The cloying darkness still surrounded me, but having a clear-cut path through the forest put me at ease slightly. Or at least it gave me purpose. With each step I took, I gazed at the path, trying to figure out whether it was shoes or hooves or claws that had carved it. Without any mud for prints, I couldn’t be sure. Overhead, branches had been snapped off to clear the way, leaving almost a tunnel through them. By my estimate, whatever used this path was just under seven feet tall. Both Dream and Aethelu were well over six feet, so it could be human...or whatever they were. Of course, it could just be some freaking enormous monster with fangs sharp enough to rip my throat out.

Something sprinted through the woods right in front of me, nearly giving me an aneurism. It took a few seconds of my heart doing the samba around my ribcage to realize that it was a deer. Or at least deer-like. I supposed I couldn’t call any creatures by the names of the animals they looked like in the real world. Besides, this dear had deep blue fur and glowing antlers and had disappeared through the trees before I’d managed to see much more of it than that.

It had acted like a deer, fast and skittish, and not out for my blood which was the only thing I could hope for in this place. And though it had moved so quickly I’d barely seen it, I hadn’t noticed massive fangs anyway. Hopefully, it was an herbivore.

It didn’t take long before the trees began to thin out and the darkness began to clear. Or at least turn into a paler kind of darkness. The moon was bright, which made the trees almost luminous. I stepped out onto a grass verge with a dirt road running left to right.

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