Nightscript: Volume 1 by C.M. Muller

Author:C.M. Muller [Muller, C.M.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Chthonic Matter
Published: 2015-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

When they return inside, he closes the iron gate set deep into the stone. Locks it. Closes the outer door. Locks it, too. Then the inner door. When that lock clicks, he slips the key ring onto a chain around his neck, the same sort of chain that circles hers, yet she doesn’t fool herself into believing he’s a prisoner, too.

Lie #1: This is a great honor.

He doesn’t touch her once they are in bed. He has before and he was as gentle as possible; she knows he wants to again and in time, he will. No one told her about that part. That was a kindness.

On her side, she stares at the bedcurtains. They’re heavy and embroidered with gilt like everything else in his home. (She refuses to call it hers. She never will.) Strange that monsters would adore such finery, or perhaps it is only her monster that cares for such things.

Her bed at home had no such curtains; the walls were not covered in tapestries, yet she would trade all the gilt in the world for the chance to return. She presses her face into the pillow, willing away the impossible dream.

One hand sneaks up to the chain around her neck. The links are small and delicate, but a chain is still a chain; it marks her as a possession, a thing, not a person.

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