Escaping El Dorado (Four Worlds Book 3) by Helen Scott

Author:Helen Scott [Scott, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

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Tessa

I didn't know how long I'd been in the prison cell. It felt like weeks, months even, but I'd only been given enough food and water for a handful of days. My body was changing already; I'd lost weight and my hair felt brittle and greasy at the same time. The queen mother, who I was now on a first name basis with, talked about everything with me. There was nothing off limits once we figured out that neither of us were going to snitch to the current queen on the other.

Ulrika had lived a life most people would just dream about, being queen, marrying the love of her life, being beloved by her people, and her realm was happy and prosperous. When her husband was assassinated everything changed, including her daughter. She told me all about Hyperborea and I shared everything I could about Earth with her.

In between our chats were my random interrogation sessions where I got to watch the queen fuck her guards and twist things in my head to where they looked like my men, and even though I knew that they weren't, it still hurt. My heart often felt like it was being shredded in those moments and I wondered what the point to all of this was, but then I would remember the chamber with the dragon and my heart would fill with that sense of peace I had when I was underwater.

Occasionally, there were beatings as well. Nothing to break me, just enough to leave me unable to move for the next few days, or sleeps, as I really couldn't keep track of time anymore. This was the scariest for me because some of the guards clearly enjoyed it too much. It was also the riskiest because they never deposited me onto the cot when they dumped me back in the cell, it was always on the floor, which I had found myself frozen to on multiple occasions.

My eyes had mostly adjusted to the dark at this point and I was starting to worry that I looked like Gollum, with big, saucer-shaped eyes and hair that was falling out all over the place. At least I had a sack to wear instead of just a loin cloth.

There were good days and bad days. Days when I cried my eyes out and felt nothing but a yawning emptiness inside me as though the blackness of the dungeon had seeped into my very soul. I would swear that there were days when everything would shift, that I would feel the love emanating through my bond with Griff, or at least I thought I did, and that was enough to survive.

"How did the four worlds come to exist?" I asked what I thought was one morning, even if it wasn't morning I'd at least slept.

"It was something to do with the magic becoming incompatible with your Earth. One by one all the realms broke away. My grandmother used to tell me that there was a great

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