Evanescent Ink (Copperline Book 4) by Matilde Sibylla

Author:Matilde, Sibylla [Matilde, Sibylla]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: www.SibyllaMatilde.com
Published: 2016-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

The room was pretty simple. Raven’s mother lay in the bed with restraints holding her back, even though she still looked a little out of it.

She had long hair that could have been blonde with a little sun, but appeared drab and lifeless. Yet the woman who sat there in the bed seemed almost regal, even in her disheveled state. Her mannerisms didn’t exactly seem to be instinct, more that she’d practiced the poise for so long, it had become second nature.

“Hi, Mama,” Raven softly said.

“Oh dear,” her mother replied with a groggy frown. “Your hair is purple now?”

Raven quickly glanced up at me through her lashes, then stepped forward, away from me a little.

“It is. It was last time, too.”

“You know, blonde would be much more becoming on you. You could be almost as lovely as your sister.”

“Tried it once,” Raven replied. “It made me look kind of washed out.”

“I’ll talk to Alessandria. We’ll find out where she goes to get her hair done. She has someone who is simply a miracle worker. Not that your sister needs it, but she took a friend there who was simply pitiful. By the time they were done, the girl looked like a model. She might be able to do something with… that.” She waved her hand around indicating pretty much all of Raven.

I couldn’t help it. I was trying to, but it was starting to piss me off the way her mother was belittling her.

“I love the purple.”

Raven gave me a quick shake of her head, but it was too late. It was out there.

And her mother caught it quickly.

“Good heavens, who is that?” she asked, as if I were a panhandler on a street corner.

“He’s a friend,” Raven replied. “His name is Drew.”

Her mother wrinkled her nose. “You really need to start picking your friends more carefully. How will you ever fit in if you keep finding people with piercings and tattoos.”

“I have piercings and tattoos, too, Mama.”

“We can fix that. I'll talk to my surgeon. She can do grafts even. We can work with what you’ve got to make you almost as beautiful as your sister.”

“What the—?”

“Drew, don’t,” Raven whispered.

I pressed my lips together and stood silently, trying to ignore the blatant insults and comparisons her mother tossed around. The woman was vile. No wonder Raven had been glad to leave. Granted, she was in a nut house now, but I got the feeling that the only difference between her jibes then and now were that she didn’t know she was in a nut house now.

But, because I knew Raven didn’t want me to say anything, I didn’t. I bit my tongue. I toyed with my labret piercing and puffed up my chest with every dig, but I didn’t say anything.

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