Sold to Serve: The Dark Brothers Book 1 by Kyra Alessy

Author:Kyra Alessy [Alessy, Kyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Realms Press
Published: 2020-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Over the next several days she fell into a routine while she convalesced. Every morning Davas brought water in ewers for washing and her breakfast and, after him, Kade would usually appear, bringing a clean shirt for her to wear. Always one of his. She found this odd, but when she asked him for something more substantial to cover herself with, he told her that they’d had to send to the village for women’s clothes because they had no others – and that while she was stuck in her room it didn’t really matter anyway. Kora didn’t say anything more about it despite how peculiar it was though the second time she caught Kade leaning in to smell her, she told him she wouldn’t wear anything he brought her unless he stopped. He seemed a bit perturbed, but he hadn’t done it since.

If Kade wasn’t there practically sitting on top of her, Mace would sit with her for hours on end, talking with her about his life before joining the Brothers. He was trying to make up for what he’d done as he’d promised he would. It was a welcome surprise. She was amazed to find that he was the younger son of a noble himself. His childhood had been similar to hers. He’d found his years cloistered within his family’s estate as suffocating as she had hers and had run away to find adventure and glory.

She remembered walking the halls of her family home or even just sitting in her chambers, feeling the walls closing in on her. She’d have to get out or she was afraid she’d go mad. She’d sneak down to the stables to ride her horse, Brisa, in the twilight or run through the meadow down to the river that ran through their lands and hope that none of the servants who saw told tales to her father. He had very specific ideas regarding how young girls of noble birth should behave and his punishments typically involved taking away things he knew she loved. She frowned as she remembered the day he’d sold Brisa. She didn’t even remember what she’d said or done to make him do it, just the hollowness inside her and the realisation that there wasn’t much left that he could take away.

Kora shook herself free of her musings. She could well understand Mace’s feelings. They weren’t much different, Mace and she, and Kora wished she could share her own memories with him. She was tempted, but there was always a voice that cautioned her. She couldn’t trust anyone even if she did feel a connection of sorts beginning to form.

Mace thought of ways to break up the hours as well. One afternoon, he brought her a tray of foods and made her guess by taste alone what each dish was. By the end they were both in fits of giggles and she couldn’t remember ever having such fun with anyone.

As he took the tray from her knee, his hand brushed hers. He hadn’t touched her once in these past days, not even by accident.

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