Rotten Rapunzel (Dark Fairy Tale Queen Series Book 3) by Anita Valle

Author:Anita Valle [Valle, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-09-19T23:00:00+00:00

~*~ 25 ~*~

That evening – at least, I think it’s evening – Melodie comes back. She brings us mats of thick wool, rolled up and tied. “You shouldn’t have to sleep on the floor,” she says.

“When do we get food?” I ask. I’ve been hungry for hours and my lips are sticking together. There’s nothing in here, not even a pail of water to sip from.

“Soon.” Melodie squeezes the rolled mat between the bars of my door. It smells dusty. She steps across the hall and gives the other one to Beauty.

“Oh sure, like I’d really sleep on that.” Beauty grabs the mat and throws it into a corner of her cell. “Could you please explain why you’re treating us like criminals just because we’re the daughters of Cinderella?”

“Oh, now you believe it?” Melodie says.

Beauty points at me with her chin. “That one explained it to me.”

“She has a name,” Melodie says.

“I forgot it. So, how long are we here for?”

“I don’t know,” Melodie says. “Until Lunilla lets you out, I guess.”

Beauty holds up one of her pale, pointy fingers. “I am not staying here in this rat hole. If you don’t release me, Godnutter will. And she won’t be too happy with you.”

Melodie smirks. “I’m afraid ‘that one’ tried a similar threat. But so far, neither the Ice Witch nor the Wicked Fairy has arrived to save you. So, you might need the mat.” She heads up the hall, silent except for the soft echo of her coughs.

Beauty stands at the door, arms folded, foot tapping. “Godnutter better get here soon. If this is some ‘lesson’ she’s trying to teach me….”

“I know. I hope Snow will come too,” I say.

“She always yelled at me for not listening. This is probably her way of punishing me for going to the party.” She rolls her eyes and blinks twice, like Kay said she did. “She makes too many rules.”

“So, you live with her?” I ask.

Beauty nods. “Not as much as I used to. I often skip out and stay with my friends. Our home is a four-day journey from here – a little village by the sea. Honestly, it’s so dead. We have some sheep and she taught me to spin wool. Wanted me to grow into ‘a good, wholesome girl.’ ”

I get the feeling that didn’t work.

“She was nuts,” Beauty says. “Always told me I was pretty but got mad if someone else did. Didn’t allow me to learn dancing because it might attract the boys. I couldn’t have a red dress because she thinks that color is naughty. And using magic was completely forbidden.”

I find all of this strangely comforting. Beauty has problems. Her life isn’t perfect. Like me, she lives with someone who makes her feel trapped. I feel so much better now.

“Snowy makes a lot of rules too,” I say.

“I have my own life! I don’t have to listen to her, she’s not my mother. Nobody likes her, anyway. I mean, she dresses like a beggar, she smokes like a furnace, it was embarrassing just to be seen with her.

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