The Apsara Chronicles Boxed Set by T G Ayer

Author:T G Ayer [Ayer, T G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Infinite Ink Publishing
Published: 2019-11-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 49

Hours passed and Vee understood exactly what the demon Hiranyakasipu was doing. He wanted Vee to stew on her situation, to mourn her grandmother, to wait and wonder what he was going to do next.

But he hadn’t anticipated the kind of person Vee was. Or the kind of person her grandmother was. The old woman had been kind and wise, imparting her knowledge and strength to her only granddaughter.

The women of Vee’s family had always been strong, it seemed, and Vee had been no different, taking her cues from her grandmother’s strength in the absence of her mother. And now, she found herself not bereft of strength, but imbued with it. Despite her grief, despite her loss, and despite the horror the evil asura was putting her and her family through.

When she heard the click at the metal door she knew the time had come to face the monster.

And yet, when he entered, he seemed so much less than he’d appeared before when he’d come in his deific form. Perhaps it was the stone-walled cell, or the death of her grandmother, or the sight of her father in the terrible condition he’d had to live in for so many years, but Vee’s impression of the demon was no longer one that instilled fear, or any form of respect.

She hated him.

And she did not fear him.

Lifting her chin, she stared at him, defiance in her gaze. But he paid little attention as he waved a hand and released her manacles. She fell to the ground, her toes having been at least a foot off the ground. Not far, but when her feet had lost their feeling, even that short drop was jarring.

Then Kasipu released her father’s chains too, an act that she didn’t feel one bit grateful for, because she knew it was merely a ploy. One to gain her trust.

She glanced covertly at her father, a message to him to wait for her signal. She only hoped Raj Sharma was still the strong man she remembered, that Kasipu hadn’t succeeded in breaking him.

Kasipu waved at the empty manacles from which her grandmother had so recently hung. “You see what happens when you do not hold up your end of the bargain?” He smirked as he rubbed his bearded chin.

“That’s on you. You can’t make me feel like that was my fault.”

“Oh no, you silly girl. I did not mean for you to feel guilt. It’s the righteous anger you are feeling at the moment that I wanted to evoke.”

“You killed my grandmother so I can be angry?”

He grinned, flashing teeth so white it seemed unnatural. “How do you feel now that you know the truth?”

Vee got to her knees, the feeling finally returning to her legs. “I will make you pay,” she yelled, her voice breaking.

Kasipu stopped and looked at her, his expression that of a benevolent father. Then he began to applaud, the impact of his palms echoing around the cell like the clanging of cymbals.

“That’s right. Show me what you are made of, little Apsara.

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