Opposing Forces (Warring Hearts Book 1) by Kayci Morgan

Author:Kayci Morgan [Morgan, Kayci]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

I rushed through the halls of the castle. Every pitch black pillar served to remind me of how desperately far I was from home. For the first time in my life, I was utterly alone among strangers. I’d been arrogant. I thought my appearance and willingness to please would be enough, but whatever attraction Zuriel had toward me was countered by a hatred for my kind as deep as mine for his. How did I think I could live like this? Scorned and mocked by everyone around me.

The walls became shadows, closing in around me. Cutting off my ability to breathe. I had to get out. But that was just one more sick joke. Without the ability to fly, there was no way out of my dark coffin. Laughter bubbled from my throat. Me? The Queen of the Deabru. I was a prisoner in my own castle. The absurdity of it was driving me mad. I should have never agreed to marry him. I should have begged for him to accept my life as payment for his loss. I hadn’t thought things through. There were things far more precious than my life that I could lose— my dignity, my sanity, my spirit.

People stopped and stared as I passed them in the halls. I could only imagine what they saw. Their disheveled queen laughing madly at the gray fog that filled the air. I didn’t feel like myself. A queen, not a princess, with wild hair, strange clothes and my every servant a winged monster from my childhood nightmares. Never had I been so alone. And starving. I had expected to be dead by now, so I hadn’t fed, and had my new husband offered to send for my slaves? No, he’d be jealous of them. Instead he wanted to sustain myself on the black blood that threatened an end to everything I’ve ever cared about. Yes, death would have been a mercy.

Only when I looked up and noticed that I’d wandered into the kitchens did I realize that subconsciously I knew what I needed. The one person here who could possibly grasp how I was feeling. Leya and Tannin had both been kind to me, but this was their home, they wouldn’t understand. “Where is Alik?” I asked one of the women cleaning pots in a nearby sink. “The human? He’s probably in the stables, your majesty.”

Oh yes, he’d told me he was a stableboy. “Can you tell me how I get there?”

The woman gave me directions and I made my way to the northern gate where the drakes were launched from. Of course those vicious creatures that had torn apart so many of my kind were pointed in the direction they were most needed—toward my home.

The stables were a massive stone building that seemed out of place next to the castle walls which shined like glass. The gray stone walls stretched up towards the sky with barred holes cut from the sides for windows and a large lattice iron gate for the door.

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