Spindle of Sin (Once Upon A Wicked Villain) by Candace Robinson & Amber R. Duell

Author:Candace Robinson & Amber R. Duell [Robinson, Candace & Duell, Amber R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

The darkness diminished, turning into daylight. Aura found herself standing near the familiar lake she’d dreamt about before and she took a shaky step back. The last time she was here a hand made from water had dragged her beneath the lake’s depths. But then movement atop the water captured her attention, a body wearing a light blue dress floating on the glistening liquid.

It was her. The girl. “Hello! Are you all right?” Aura shouted as she hurried toward the lake. She didn’t hesitate to dip her feet into the cool liquid and rush toward the still form.

Just as Aura reached her, the girl’s eyes flew open, her sapphire irises blazing. She thrust forward, water splashing and her chest heaving when she faced Aura.

“You’re back!” the girl shouted as Aura’s heart pounded furiously. “I’ve been waiting for you to return. Follow me.” She waved her out from the lake.

“I don’t choose when I come here. I’m under some sort of spell courtesy of the King of Moonstone. Rush,” Aura said while wringing out the sopping wet skirts of her dress before lowering herself on the grass beside the girl.

The girl’s face paled, her bottom lip wobbling. “Rush? He would never do anything of that nature! Unless you hurt him…”

“I never met him before he stole me away from my court!” Aura hissed, then realization struck her. “You remember more about your life?”

The girl nodded. “Not everything, but some of my memories have been staying, not seeping in and out. I remember my name. Sorcha.”

Aura hadn’t heard that name before, but she didn’t know much about Moonstone besides the stories her mother had told her that were passed down when her family were royals. Once she was wed to Prince Pax, she was to learn everything about the courts outside of Starnight. “What else do you remember about Rush then? Last time, you said there was pain around his name. He didn’t hurt you?”

Sorcha shook her head, pulling her wet hair over one shoulder. “Rush loves me and would never hurt me. But my beloved didn’t want me or this child. He no longer wanted to see me. There was another that he’d chosen… I later went out to the lake and—” Her brows scrunched together. “And I… I remember the water closing around me. My lungs unable to drink in the air.”

Aura gasped, pressing a hand to cup her mouth as she waited for Sorcha to continue.

“I can’t remember.” Sorcha gritted her teeth, tightening her fists. “But Rush was always my protector. Always.”

Aura thought about how Rush had said there’d been someone special. Who was a thorn in his side and had fallen in love with someone else. Was that what twisted him? Rush had loved this girl, but she’d been in love with someone else, then drowned? Marion hadn’t seemed to know about a beloved, and perhaps there wasn’t since this girl was never truly his…

“Wait, there’s something else!” Sorcha shrieked. “I remember! He—” But when she opened her mouth to speak again, water gurgled out, spilling down her chin.

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