Fire Dragon: Enemies to Lovers Fantasy Romance by Sansa Moon

Author:Sansa Moon [Moon, Sansa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 - Blair

Blair hurried her step, walking through a forest that was the stuff of nightmares for the entire kingdom and telling herself she was simply on a regular stroll. These were the woods near the sanctuary. She didn’t have anything to be frightened of.

Soft laughter reached her ears, and she lifted her shoulders, wrapping her arms around herself, wanting nothing more than to curl into a ball on the ground and allow it to swallow her whole. If that was what it wished.

“Stop it,” she said. To herself or to whoever else was listening.

“No,” Hugh said behind her. “I need you to stop and look at me. Blair!”

His hand on her arm, swinging her around to face him. She took a step back, another, shaking her head at him as his voice whispered awful things in her head. He never wanted her. He never saw her as anything other than what she was lacking in his eyes. And in everyone else’s. She was alone. She always would be.

And she’d been running from that fact ever since her parents died.

She knew that now, could see it clear as anything. But she didn’t know what to do about it.

“It’s not real,” Hugh said. “It’s the forest, it’s this place. Don’t listen.”

“It’s everywhere,” she whispered.

It was what had brought her to latch onto him in the first place. That churning need to settle, to be accepted, to be told she could stop her worrying about what her future would bring and simply let it arrive.

“And it’s the truth,” she said.

“Let me be the judge of that,” Hugh told her, hands held out for her to stop stepping away. “What are they telling you?”

“That I’m worthless,” she said.

“Why would you believe them?” he asked. “You never believed me.”

She stared at him, then took the steps separating them and shoved him hard in the chest. Then again, ignoring the shock on his face.

“You think I didn’t hear every slight?” she asked. “You think I didn’t have to grapple with them every single day? You think it was easy for me not to believe them?”

“No,” he shook his head. “That’s not what I meant.”

“I don’t care what you meant,” she stated.

She turned, beginning to walk again. If she could only find a path, something that might tell her she was on track to finding her way out of there, then she could run. She would run far away from him. Then she remembered that she couldn’t do that.

And the whispering stopped.

It made her halt as well. The quiet that filled her head such an opposite that it was as though it had been years since she’d gotten to enjoy it.

There was something she hadn’t been honest about with herself. A detail to her reason for returning to the castle that she hadn’t wanted to look at and so she had turned her head from it. She had pretended as though it wasn’t there in all its more intricate patterns, but now she had no choice but to look at it.

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