Rapunzel (Faerie Tale Collection) by Jenni James

Author:Jenni James [James, Jenni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy
Publisher: StoneHouse Ink
Published: 2014-07-30T07:00:00+00:00

WHEN JONATHAN PULLED BACK again, this time he noticed Rapunzel’s cropped hair. It came just to her shoulders. “But I do not understand.” He glanced behind and saw the long rope he had climbed up hooked upon the wall. “Was all of that really your tresses? And the witch cut them?”

“No.” Rapunzel chuckled. “She had put some sort of spell on my hair and created that massive length. The weight of it hurt so much, I was actually grateful when it was cut and used as her ladder.”

He shook his head, barely hiding the words that choked against his throat. How could anyone treat this girl so cruelly? To force her to live up here, cutting her locks and—Just then she moved, and he noticed the shackles at her feet. Incredulously, his eyes traced them from the balcony into the room to the wall where the large chain was mounted. “Are you suggesting she felt the need to harness you in here? As if being feet above the world was not enough, you are now chained like an animal as well?” His voice had risen with each word, and he made an attempt to calm his mounting temper.

She grinned and let out a long breath. “You have no idea how much I have missed you.”

“And you have no idea how long I have searched for you.”

She raised an eyebrow. “Let me guess . . . eight months?”

“Minx.” He winked.

She laughed and hugged him again. “It feels so good to see you.”

His arms immediately went around her. It would seem he could not fathom anywhere else his hands should be but holding her. “We have to get you out of here.”

Her voice was so quiet, he could barely hear her. “Do you not think that I have tried just that for all these months? Why do you suppose I am shackled? It is because I would not stop attempting to leave. It was her last effort.”

“And why have you not succeeded?”

She stepped away from him, and he watched as those heavy chains dragged when she walked further into the room. Her back was to him as she fiddled with the few utensils on the kitchen counter. “There is another spell placed upon this tower, that if I am to leave, Lady Vactryne knows it immediately and comes to halt my progress.”

“Well, that would seem more logical. How else could she keep a girl with her own ladder within this tower?” He stepped into the room with her.

She still would not meet his eyes. “Jonathan, it had gotten so bad that recently I have had very morose thoughts.”

He took another step toward her. “What do you mean?”

She shrugged and would not say, so he waited until she finally gave in to the silence. "Not long ago, I had even planned to take my own life.”

“No,” he whispered, his gaze taking in her blonde hair and dainty frame.

She nodded, her eyes then meeting his, bright, shining with unshed tears. “Yes. It was better than be a prisoner here.

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