Goddess of Flames by J.A. Armitage

Author:J.A. Armitage [Armitage, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989700105
Publisher: Enchanted Quill Press
Published: 2020-01-22T06:00:00+00:00

26th January

I was in no mood for company, but I'd not eaten anything since breakfast the previous day, and my stomach was threatening to implode if I didn't eat soon. I walked wearily down to the dining room to find only Charlotte there, eating her breakfast.

"You've just missed everyone," she exclaimed. "Well, your brothers. Your father didn't come for breakfast at all."

"I bet he didn't," I said, pulling a plate toward myself and heaping it with pastries and cold meats.

"I saw that Milo got through," she said. "Caspian, too," she added.

"Yes, but how many didn't get through? How many died just for the chance to marry me? The whole thing is a crock." I slammed the butter onto the bread, spreading it so violently it made a hole in the bread.

"They knew what they were getting into," Charlotte pointed out.

"No, they didn't," I argued, though I don't know why. Charlotte had nothing to do with this. I needed to take my frustration out on someone, and she was the only one there. I pulled the Sentinel towards me and held it up so she could see. A photo of one of the men staring down a tiger filled the front page. "They printed the competition I gave them. These men thought they were going to be making a small statue." I threw the paper back down on the table where it landed on the papers from the other kingdoms. I pulled out the paper below it. The Atlantice Conch. I was on the front cover of that one. Someone had taken a photo of me being held back by the guard when I'd jumped over the fence.

I sighed and threw that one down too. I didn't even want to go through the other kingdoms' papers. The whole thing was embarrassing enough as it was. I didn't need to read about it.

"I don't suppose you know what today's competition is going to be, do you?" I asked. There wasn't a chance that my fantastic puzzle was going to be used.

"I don't know," Charlotte said, shrugging her shoulders. "I only hope it's not as brutal as yesterday. I almost had a heart attack when one of the lions ran over to Caspian. He would have gotten him too if he'd not performed a spell."

I raised my eyebrows as Charlotte brought her hand up to her mouth.

"I wasn't supposed to say that. Please don't be mad."

So Caspian was using magic. It figured. I'd put a blanket ban on all magic, but since when did Caspian listen to a word I said and followed my rules? Precisely never, that's when, and I guessed I couldn't hope for him to start now.

"Don't worry about it," I reassured her. "I don't even care anymore. I just want Milo to come out of this alive, I don't care who wins now, not even if it's Caspian. I should have married him right at the start and avoided all this."

Charlotte nodded, but I could see in her eyes that she didn't agree with me.

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