Love Destined by Wild Rose Press

Author:Wild Rose Press [Authors, Wild Rose Press]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy Sampler Pack
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2019-05-19T00:00:00+00:00

Vykup

A Novel of the Koldun

by

Andi Marchal

Chapter 1

Kaat

It wasn’t magic that changed my life. It was more a series of incidents: a fight with my mother, an accident, and a seemingly random invitation. No, it wasn’t magic. It was in fact the first day of my Russian Literature class that changed my life.

“Are you having trouble finding a seat, young lady?” the imposing professor at the front of the room asked.

“No sir,” I said, glaring at the tall graceful body that had just slid into the seat I wanted.

“Your name please.”

“Kaat Collins, that’s Kaat with two a’s.”

“Well, Kaat with two a’s, maybe if you had been on time you could claim that seat. As it is find another one, quickly.”

I finally sat down in the seat behind and accidently dropped my messenger bag. The manuscript I was working on spilled out. The seat thief bent down to help me pick it up and glanced at the papers.

“You write?” he asked with a slight Eastern European accent. Frowning, I yanked them out of his hands.

“Nothing you would be interested in,” I said abruptly.

My senior year at Barrington University should have been an easy one. With all my required courses completed, I had just needed to add on a few credits. Graduating would have meant setting out in the world on my own, hopefully as a successful novelist like my mother. All my plans came to an abrupt halt this summer when the police appeared upon my doorstep to tell me that my mother and stepfather had driven off one of the local mountain roads on their way to our cabin in the Catskills. This area of New York State was known for the beauty of its mountain range. Those mountains had always been breathtaking to me, but now I would always look at them differently. While waiting for things to settle down, I had contemplated not finishing school, but then decided to take one or two classes. That turned into one class when I received an invitation to enroll in a Russian Literature course taught by a visiting professor. That option would have given me the time to get my parents’ estate in order and still be attending classes, getting the intellectual stimulation I always craved.

I received one more dirty look from up front before I settled down.

“If you accepted the invitation to enroll in this class, I will assume you have all read the subject matter. Name your favorite Russian novel.”

“Crime and Punishment,” the seat thief and I both blurted out.

“Was that you Kaat with two a’s?”

“Yes, sir.”

“An angsty, guilt-ridden novel like Crime and Punishment is a favorite?”

I shook my head yes.

“I would like to see you and Mr. Orlov after class please.”

Mr. Orlov. I could now put a name to the ninja-like seat thief.

The professor’s name was Alexi Ivanov and from what I had researched before signing up, he was one of the foremost authorities on the more modern Russian classics. It looked likely that I had already read one of the required books.

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