Goddess of the Broken by Jamie Dalton

Author:Jamie Dalton [Dalton, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“Emperor Aiden! It’s you!”

The guard’s voice pulled Tempest out of her slumber. She hissed as her back protested when she moved.

“Send for a carriage to bring us back to the palace. Neither of us can handle a long walk,” Aiden ordered.

Tempest slowly sat up, gently shifting her back and shoulder to see how much the wound had healed. Her eyes welled up with tears, but it was still considerably less painful than it had been before.

“How are you feeling?”

She wiped the tears from her eyes and forced a smile. “Better. You?”

“I wouldn’t say better, but I don’t feel any worse. Not all of us have a god’s healing powers.”

“Can we keep that between us? While the gods know I’m here, I think letting everyone know that I am a god will only make things more difficult.”

“Agreed.” Aiden groaned as he rose to his unsteady feet.

“I’m going to take a look out there while we wait for them to pick us up, see if there’s anything about our attackers that I didn’t notice before.”

He jumped forward to catch Tempest as she struggled to get to her feet, pulling her to his chest and stumbling to keep his own balance.

“Tempest, you don’t have to come. You should rest here.”

She could hear the concern in his voice, and deep down, she wanted nothing more than to collapse back to the ground. He was right, though; there may have been things she missed and needed to discover for herself before evidence had a chance to be lost.

She gripped his arms as she straightened herself up. “Let me join you outside, and I will rest there.”

He nodded in agreement and moved aside as Tempest took her first step towards the door. Her feet dragged on the floor; she didn’t have the strength to try and lift them higher. She slowly made her way, with Aiden by her side, into the alley and deposited herself on a crate next to the door.

Several soldiers moved among the bodies in the alley while more of them stood on either side of the alley, keeping the quickly growing crowds at bay. The masks were being pulled off the attackers’ faces one at a time, revealing men and women she didn’t recognize. Nothing appeared extraordinary.

Aiden’s voice made her jump as he asked one of the soldiers, “"Did you find any weapons?”

“No, your majesty.”

“Really? They had...” Tempest stopped as a familiar bronze-skinned face was revealed. “It can’t be.”

“Miss?”

“Put the mask back on that woman,” Aiden commanded quickly, then added more quietly, “That’s one of the contestants of the Dei Electi.”

The soldier quickly placed the mask back on the woman. What Tempest saw wasn’t a trick of her mind, then.

Alina, representative of the goddess of the sun, had been part of the attack.

The more Tempest thought about it, the more it made sense. Soleil could impart her abilities to her representative since she was her chosen one. The Dei Electi created a connection between god and participant that would bless the mortal for rest of their life if they stayed in their god’s favor.

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