Forbidden (A New Adult Paranormal Romance) by Dawn Steele

Author:Dawn Steele
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: teen, alien, romantic suspense, queen, snow white, paranormal, romance, fantasy, new adult, princess
Publisher: Aphrodite Hunt
Published: 2013-05-18T03:04:24.460013+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Snow White fell onto the street. A blinding white light knocked around her skull and finally melded with her brain, airy as a feather. She scarcely felt her face slam against the cobblestones. She was only aware of a wetness trickling from her scalp – or was it inside her scalp? My brain is bleeding. I’m going to die.

Everything went disturbingly still, and she could only sense the soundless explosion in her head. Even her ears must been blown off. Then somewhere outside the cavern of light she was trapped in, like smoke from a cannon mouth clearing, she heard faint scuffles. As the white light continued to recede, she saw bits and pieces swarming before her eyes – hazy tinted jigsaws of body parts and faces.

The pieces solidified into the man with the red moustache. He knelt by her body and he held a long knife. The scent of metal and blood wafted to her nostrils.

“If you would permit me, Princess,” she heard him say in an echo, “a small token I would take of you. It will only hurt for a while, then never more.”

Snow White screamed, but the sound that came forth was the mewl of a kitten. Cold air licked her bosom as the front of her shirt was ripped. She locked eyes with the man with the red moustache. His were a cold glinting green, hers were mindless and pleading. Feebly, she tried to bat him off with her hands, but it was as though she had lost all coordination. The world retreated into a grey fugue, but the thought of Gretel ruling the roost in the royal kitchen made her claw her way out.

The knife dug into her soft flesh. The pain bit like a chip of ice before she knocked Red Moustache’s hand away. They’re all obsessed with ripping out my heart.

A blur, and Red Moustache was swept off his feet. Behind him stood a tiny woman with chocolate skin and eyes that burned fiercely in her shaven head. The apparition swam. Goddess, Snow White thought hazily. The woman’s nose was broad and flat, and her lips were full. She was easily half of Red Moustache’s size, but she wielded a spear twice the height of a man. Her brightly colored kaftan fluttered in the breeze.

Somewhere, a child screamed.

Red Moustache countered by reaching into his coat. He drew out something metallic and silvery, and tossed it with an almost careless flick of his wrist. The bald woman ducked. A shutter behind her thrummed as something struck it: a two-sided silver comb with spikes for teeth. Snow White’s head throbbed. Above her, windows began to slam shut in rapid succession. The street was closing down, leaving them to mercy of the guards.

Snow White’s trembling hand went to her scalp. She could feel the cold spine of the comb like the backbone of some steel animal.

As she tried to pull it out, she saw that the rest of the guards were similarly engaged by other small women.

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