Obsidian Secrets by Ju Honisch

Author:Ju Honisch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ju Honisch, Victorian, historical fantasy, steampunk, vampire
Publisher: Ju Honisch
Published: 2022-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 55

Corrisande woke in the middle of the night to darkness, silence and dread. She was very cold. Something had pulled her out of the horrible dream that had held her. Something she could not name.

There were tears on her face. She had cried in her dream. Her hands were cramped into her pillows and she was lying on her hotel bed, still partly dressed.

Maybe that had woken her. She was uncomfortable. She pulled the blankets over her. She did not at once remember why she came to lie on her bed like that. An avalanche of feelings cascaded into her mind. Her terrible black dream ebbing away against an even more terrible reality. For a moment, she did not know any more where the terror of the past day stopped and where the dreadfulness of her all too vivid dream started.

She was a Feyon, partly at least. So much was true. The thought kept coming back to her. It was not part of a nightmare that would vanish into the forgotten back realms of her mind, once the sun came up. She was different, an unnatural creature. Despicable, contemptible, fearsome. People would hate her for what she was, and she did not even know what being what she was meant in detail.

She was lost, too. Her carefully guarded reputation blown to bits by a criminal who had at once tried to betray her father and herself. And to kill Delacroix. And Lieutenant von Orven, of course.

A precious piece, the man had called her. A beautiful bait, who was not really important except to a man who “thinks he is so high and mighty.” A protégée of this man who had many such protégées. A commodity easily come by. Conquering her was only just a question of the price. “Not that you will ever enjoy her,” he had said to Delacroix.

That last sentence would be true, of course. Delacroix would never enjoy her. He hated her company and everything that the power-hungry maniac, her father had installed as his representative, had said about her. He had hated it but not doubted it.

In a way, Dupont had been right. She was a precious piece. The King might not have specified their relations to his subordinates but merely have told them that one of his protégées was in Munich and that they had to render assistance if requested. For a creature of so foul a mind and soul it was probably easier to think of her as one of the King’s mistresses than as his daughter. And even if he had known their true relation, he might still take her for a woman of purchasable favours.

She knew about their existence, of course, but her father had no interest in that trade, kept his gaming hell carefully free of these damsels. His aims were set much higher. Murk was not his speciality.

Her father had shielded her from this side of the criminal scene. He had not offered any explanations beyond the most cursory ones.

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