Sneaky Snow White (Dark Fairy Tale Queen Series Book 2) by Anita Valle

Author:Anita Valle [Valle, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

~*~ 21 ~*~

As I head downstairs, I don’t hear the noise of the Dwarves anymore. I guess they finished their battle in the throne room. I stop in, just to be sure, and oh my stars, what a mess. Weapons left everywhere, swords and axes and maces and spears. The floor and walls are all scratched. Oh well. At least they left the throne in one piece-

I flinch hard. There’s a lady in here! An old lady sitting in my throne! She slouches casually against one arm, as if she owns the place. Her legs are crossed and she swings the upper foot lightly.

“Hello, brat,” she says to me.

I’m too shocked to say anything. It’s kind of scary, the way she smiles at me. She’s got messy gray hair done up in a sloppy bun. Wearing a worn out peasant dress with a green apron. An old lady from the villages, I guess. How on earth did she get in here?

Hesitantly, I walk toward her. “Are you one of the servants?” I ask, even though I know she isn’t. She doesn’t look familiar.

“Ha!” The lady says. “Do I look like a servant?”

“Yes, you do. Can you get out of my chair, please?”

“Why, you want it? Trust me, you won’t like it. Worst thing I’ve ever sat on. That girl has gone plain batty.”

“Who?”

“Your stepmama, the meanie-queenie.”

I stop before the throne. I have to admit this old lady makes me nervous. She looks sturdy and strong, not the soft grandma type. I’m starting to think she’s a mad woman who wandered into the castle.

“It’s time for you to go home,” I say.

“Not yet, dumpling! We’re going to have a nice little talk.” The lady digs inside a large pocket on the front of her apron. She brings out a little bag tied shut with a string, and then a clay pipe, long and curling.

“Are you going to smoke in here?” I ask.

“No, I’m going to play a little tune,” she says dryly. She unties the bag and dumps a dark, ground substance into the bowl of the pipe. She pokes the tip of the pipe in her mouth and snaps her fingers over the bowl. Smoke begins to drift out of it.

I take a step back. “How did you do that?”

“Do what?”

“Light the pipe.”

“I snapped.”

“That’s not how pipes are lit.”

“Oh! You’re a smoker too?”

“No, but….” I sigh. “Who are you?”

The old lady shrugs and sucks on her pipe. “No one, really.”

“Then why are you here?” My patience is really running out with this weirdo.

The old lady looks at me. “Seems like you’ve got some kind of problem with my Cindy.”

I stare at her. “Do you mean Cinderella?”

“I do.”

“You know her?”

“Did once. We’re no longer speaking. But I keep an eye on her. I know about your plan to bump her off and I won’t allow it. She’s out of your silky-smooth, raven-black hair now. So do the girl a favor and let her be.”

“Are you aware that she tried to kill me? Brutally and savagely?”

“Yeah, that was a lousy day.

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