Forever Cursed (Never Ever Series Book 2) by Sarah J. Pepper

Author:Sarah J. Pepper [Pepper, Sarah J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Neximus Publishing
Published: 2017-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Miss Bell

Hiding in the Crown Estate was next to impossible. Even if I wasn’t strapped to a wooden staff, I wouldn’t have gotten very far. I wasn’t well and there were too many natives standing between freedom and me.

Kensington instructed Deval and Mullins to set me down when we got to a rocky platform halfway up the mountain. The platform overlooked the angry ocean. Huge silver rocks jutted out from the ocean—the fallen mountains of Neverland. Only one fallen mountain was claimed as a home. Skull Rock.

I didn’t see the practitioner or anyone else on that piece of rock for that matter. I think that made it worse. I didn’t know where he was at or when he would get here. Though, I suppose it didn’t matter. There were many natives eager to see me dead. Whibbles flanked the other side of his monarch.

“You should have killed me when you had the chance, Mullins,” I said. “Bringing me here was a mistake.”

“You are une erreur, a mistake,” Deval interjected. “Nature messed up with the creation of creatures like you.”

“And you angered her with your blade,” I said, nodding to the machete. I addressed Kensington, “Be wary of the forest, Mother is vengeful.”

“Nature doesn’t feel anything!” Mullins fumed.

“Then why is she described as the life force?” I pressed.

Mullins pulled back his arm, but it was Deval who stopped him. With a simple shake of his head, Deval convinced Mullins to stand down. Kensington watched the exchange with great interest. I didn’t know what he was thinking, but I was certain as soon as he started to pace he was displeased.

“Are the restraints necessary?” Kensington asked, walking back and forth leisurely. “Untie her, Mullins.”

“Every restraint is necessary when it comes to that bitch. She took out all our men in the forest,” Mullins fumed, glaring at me like it was my fault his commander was questioning him. He stepped in front of Deval when he moved for my wrists.

“It seems to me that if you would have merely left her unconscious, I would still have most of my men and it wouldn’t have taken you days to get here.” Kensington’s voice was thick like honey, but he could not hide his anger from me. I’ve known him too long. “And then you bind her with the very vines she used to hang my men in the forest.”

“What else were we to use?” Mullins demanded. “What did you expect?”

Deval was stepping back, giving Kensington a wide berth. His facial expression was stone cold. Why was he allowing his comrade to speak to the monarch without respect? I wouldn’t have tolerated it. And from the tapping of Kensington’s cane, I could tell his anger was brewing.

“She is nearly dead, as it is now, and even if she wasn’t, she’s just a little thing. You all physically outmatch her,” Kensington answered calmly. “And what I expected was for you all to return days ago.”

“We could have used reinforcements.” Mullins carried on, throwing his hands in the air, frustrated.

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