The Bloodshade Encounters & The Songspinner (Shadeborn Book 2) by Finn K.C

Author:Finn, K.C. [Finn, K.C.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Starstorm
Published: 2015-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

SALEM, MA, 1692

August 20th

Five humans had been put to death yesterday, but Alexander Cross found that he still had stomach enough for his breakfast. Charlotte brought him a plateful of hot delights, but served nothing for herself, sitting across from him at their rickety table. Her eyes blazed slowly into the thin fabric of her lover’s shirt. Alexander began to eat, seeming reactionless to her awful look, despite the way it prickled his skin. When he had finished a few mouthfuls, and realised that Charlotte was not going to leave him alone, he shook himself once and gave her a thoughtful sigh.

“Well, at least if they turn on you, you wouldn’t be hanged for another seven months. Not until the baby’s born, at least.”

If Charlotte had been a shade, she could have set him aflame with her presence alone. As it was, she seemed to be giving it her best human try.

“Why should they turn against me?” she snapped.

Alexander shrugged casually.

“These people do appear to be pointing the finger of blame left, right and centre now,” he mused, “and the trials have turned to utter madness.”

“And so have I, it seems,” Charlotte answered, “trusting you.” She looked down at the table, her resolve shattering as her voice broke at last. “You’re not going to marry me, are you?”

“No,” he answered. It was the first moment of honesty they had ever shared.

Charlotte nodded to herself, sniffing.

“I shall be ruined. Pregnant, shunned, alone.”

“You could move towns,” Alexander suggested amiably. “Go somewhere else and tell them the father of your child died in an accident. You’ll be pitied and helped.”

Charlotte’s anger flared once more. She rose from the table and rounded on the man she thought she’d loved.

“That’s your solution?” she demanded. “Lies on top of lies? Why am I not surprised? Perhaps when I tell them my husband is dead, it won’t have to be entirely untruthful!”

She lunged for the knife Alexander had been cutting his meat with, and came down on him like a rock-fall, wild and heavy. The young man panicked, his eyes rushing to and fro as the shine of the blade slipped in and out of his vision. He wrestled fervently to get Charlotte back on her feet and out of his way, the two of them tumbling off his chair and onto the floor in the fracas. A woman possessed with scornful vengeance, Charlotte found herself atop the man who’d betrayed her and took her moment, pinning him down with the knife pressed tightly to his throat.

“I could have loved you, you know,” she spat.

Alexander closed his eyes, as if accepting the end of his life.

“God preserve me!” Charlotte screamed.

Her lover stood and dusted off his shirt as she floated in mid-air beside him. Alexander had never been all that good at gravity magic but, when the need arose, his instincts helped him to focus all the better. At other times in his life, Alexander had had no fear of the odd human making wild accusations that

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