Reflections of Silence: a vampire Casket Girls historical paranormal romance (Silent Sentinels Book 1) by Raven Hush

Author:Raven Hush [Hush, Raven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Quail Press
Published: 2024-08-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

GISELLA

In place of the boiling seas and Sebastian’s dark head, his lips pressed to my skin in an act as intimate as sex, I stood in the cabin I shared on board the ship with Amy without him. A second passed, and another, until his presence faded, leaving me alone with my friend.

The same dim light, the same broken lantern. Warped floorboards rocked beneath my boots in a familiar motion as I crossed the small room, swaying, but the roll of the ship had little to do with my lack of stability.

“You could out drink half the whores in Paris,” Amy giggled behind me. I spun, the room taking my stomach on a round the world tour with it. Amy grabbed my arm, holding a bottle of dark liquor under my nose. “Go on. Have another, whore.”

She doubled over, giggles consuming her, but something about the scene felt horribly wrong. Or maybe it was my stomach. I liberated the bottle, swigging from its smooth glass neck all the same. Dark golden liquid burned my tongue and throat on its way down, but a pleasant, spicy ginger taste resided in my mouth afterward.

“What would you know about whores, girl?” I slurred the words, twirling in a dance that took me to the bed.

Warmth trailed along my chest, lack of clean, fresh air clung to the stale breath in my throat. Staring at the ceiling, I watched shadows lengthen and merge across the exposed beams of the ship.

“A whole lot more than you, stuffed away in your nunnery,” she pouted.

“English.” I shook my head haughtily. “Always think you know everything.”

“Maybe we do.” Amy poured more of the liquid into me.

I blinked at the shadows as they performed their never-ending dance, warring and merging against the rush of the ship upon the open ocean roaring in my ears.

Amy’s lips brushed my ears. “But you’ll be the whore, soon enough. He’ll love you, want you. Care for you.” Her voice filled with venom. The shadows above me danced in a frenzy of limbs, their dance filled with desire and passion. “You’ll let me into his house so I can take everything, destroy everything he wants, and leave him with nothing. Like he left me.”

I blinked, my lips numb, but I had no words to give her. Figures swarmed across the ceiling, scorching the wood there black with an eternity of sins, and I fell into its eternal darkness.

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