Marked for Redemption: An Enemies to Lovers Dark Romance: A Games of the Underworld Novel by Jade Royal

Author:Jade Royal [Royal, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-23T18:30:00+00:00

RENEE/ZENDAYA

Inside Colton’s home, it was small like a cottage. It was still warm and welcoming, but after he laid me down on the couch, he felt different. I’d called him Alistair, and he’d corrected me immediately.

“Alistair is dead. For whatever reasons that it brought us here, it left the man you knew back there. And you, you’ve tarnished what I was becoming in this life. I don’t know what you are or who you are.” He sighed.

“Then why did you save me, Al–Colton?”

“I don’t know.” He went to the closet and came back with a towel and washcloth. Then he supplied me with a bucket of water and soap. “Clean yourself up.”

With that, he left me to my own devices.

I ached everywhere, especially my chest. I smelled of death and something awful. My senses were different, diluted, and less active. Tired, I wanted to rest but didn’t want to piss off Colton any more than I had. On wobbly knees, I tried to stand again but fell back onto the couch. It was easier to scoot forward and try to maneuver while sitting down.

It took a long time to get all of me clean. I was careful when I washed my chest with the wound still partially open and a bruise there. I didn’t want to infect it. Couldn’t. I left my clothes in a pile on the floor and curled up on the couch to sleep. It was freezing here and since I couldn’t get up to find something to cover up with; I settled for using the towel as a shield. Sleep became my friend. Colton only woke me to wash, eat, use the bathroom, and so he could administer medication.

After a few days, I could stand. I stayed awake longer. I felt like I was recovering from a virus that didn’t want to leave my body.

“You look different,” Colton said to me a few days later. “More like Renee and less so like Zendaya.”

“How is that possible?” I asked.

“How is any of this possible?”

“Colton, I know you’re avoiding me. Can we talk about it?”

“Talk? See, that would have been ideal when you were torturing me for information that I didn’t know you wanted. Instead, you cut into my skin, beat me until I was unconscious, and…” He was yelling by the end and losing control. “You were inside my head, Renee. Playing tricks and games to get me to talk. You fucking made me think I was crazy! You used my vulnerability to get what the fuck you wanted and when you were done, dropped me off like it was going to fix what you’d done. Can we talk? Fuck, no. I’m too busy trying to figure out why I saved your life. How are you even alive right now when I saw you die? Part of me wished that whatever shit he did to you didn’t work.”

I held in the pain from his words. He hated me and the things that he spoke of. I didn’t remember doing any of them.

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