Heritage- Legends of Shadear by Elina Vale

Author:Elina Vale [Vale, Elina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789526910826
Publisher: Elina Vale
Published: 2019-03-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

AFTER KNOCKING THE HIGH MISTRESS unconscious, Merrilon crawled further away.

Doria watched Javid sprint from the room, her eyes blazing with magical fire. “Brilliant,” she said to Merrilon. “Do you have any idea what Shea will do to you?”

Merrilon stumbled up, took a step back, and turned to look at Cemara. She lay unconscious on the floor. Before he could help her, the tiles expanded around his feet, holding him in place again.

A flash of red emerged into Doria’s eyes. Black powder seeped from her hands. She tossed it toward Merrilon, who ducked down and covered his head with his arms.

“Stop!”

The firm voice startled them both. Doria cut off the magic immediately when Shea rose to her feet. Blood leaked from a terrible head wound, creating a horrendous red mask across her face. Before their eyes, the cut stitched itself shut and the bleeding ceased.

Doria lowered her hands. “Are you alright?”

Shea smiled and gently laid her palm on Doria’s face. “I’m fine. The Star takes care of me. Please, leave us. Go find Javid.”

Doria glanced at Merrilon. “But he...”

“I will deal with him,” Shea said.

Merrilon’s stomach seized. This was it: his dying day. Perhaps his death would have meaning, though; the boy had escaped. Hopefully, he would live a blissful life of freedom. Exactly like Shri.

Doria left the room, and Shea casually wiped the blood from her face with her hand. “It’s intriguing that you would risk your life to spare a boy you don’t even know, just to allow him to escape. Do you hate me so much?”

“It has nothing to do with you,” Merrilon said. “I don’t like to see others suffer.”

“That’s why you’re always helping this miserable woman whose bones I have broken so many times,” she said, gesturing to Cemara, “only to let my senatai fix her again.”

“Yes.”

Shea’s eyebrows rose up. “You’re weak.”

Merrilon stared her down. “If I was weak, I’d stand by and let her suffer.”

“How interesting,” Shea said. “It seems you and I have different concepts of strength. I’ve offered you a place at my side, and you repeatedly turn me down. You see, I think that if you were strong, you would have the ambition to accept. You would see that the position I offer puts you in a better place to exercise your will. I think that frightens you.” She walked closer, placing her hand on Merrilon’s chest. Spreading her fingers, she stared into his eyes with a strange hunger. “You have a warrior’s heart, Merrilon Moongale.” She moistened her lips. “And a warrior’s body.” Her hand climbed from his chest to his neck, leaving a blood-red smudge on its way up. “But I know how to break you. Oh, your soft, wounded heart will be mine. As will your daughter’s.” With her last words, her eyes blazed with those dancing red dots. Her grip on his throat tightened.

He gasped for air.

Fixing her eyes onto his, she beamed a wicked smile. “I’m going to send you two to the Gates. Maybe that will show you where your loyalties should lie.

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