Ruin (The Fate of Crowns Book 0) by Rebecca L. Garcia

Author:Rebecca L. Garcia [Garcia, Rebecca L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

I slammed my fist against his door, thudding four times before he answered. He pulled the door open, and I slumped down the wall. My eyes were heavy, bloodshot, and tearing up from the arrowed sunlight through a small window. This part of the castle was nicer than the west wing. It was close to the front, still far away from the rest of the royal family, and kept for visitors. Caspian would have been one of the first fae guests who hadn’t been dragged to be tortured.

“You look like hell!” Caspian exclaimed, his eyes wild. When he extended his hand, I gripped it and he pulled me to my feet.

“Yes,” I admitted. I’d only had a chance to change and hide the blood-stained dress before heading out. Not that it mattered, I always looked like hell, as he’d so eloquently put it.

“Have you changed your mind?” He tugged at the collar of his white shirt and looked me up and down. “Love?”

“Yes.”

A slow smile spread across his face. “I am so happy to hear it.”

“Wait.”

His eyes widened. “Yes?”

“Please understand that although I agree to help you, I cannot let you take Berovia from us or start a war.” I looked around the emptying corridor. “But I can do more. Please.” I gestured behind him. “Invite me in.”

He moved out of my way. “Please, Princess, come in.”

His pants had been thrown on in haste. They were unbuttoned and wrinkled. Averting my eyes, I looked around as he closed the wooden door. A rug stretched out to the corners of the room, which was much smaller than mine. A window, reaching from the ceiling to the floor, looked out to the gardens. A dressing table, white, marked and scratched, sat across from his bed. A mirror hung above the table, reminding me of why I had come.

“You were right. I am cursed.”

He grinned. “I knew it.”

“Careful.” My expression darkened. “That smile could cost me a nation.”

“Was that flirtation?” He feigned shock. “I didn’t know you to be capable of such a thing.”

I exhaled slowly. “Neither did I.”

He sat on the end of his bed. “You’re a natural.”

I held my hands behind my back, fumbling my fingers. “The curse was confirmed.”

“By whom?”

“No one important. All that matters is I’d been made to look like a beast to the world, and until you, I had no idea.” I inhaled sharply. “Every time I’ve seen my reflection, I’ve hated myself. I am the embodiment of a monster.”

“Oh, Evangeline.”

“Don’t pity me.”

“But I want to.” He had kind eyes, the type that made a small part of me want to let him.

“Tell me. How do I remove it? You’re a faery. You must know.”

He looked up at a gold lamp that hung between two pictures, one of boats on the sea by the castle, the other a wood, with knights riding through the trees. I wondered where his mind had gone as he stared away blankly. “A curse can only be undone by the one who cast it,” he explained.

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