The Redeemable Prince (The Star-Crossed Series Book 9) by Rachel Higginson

Author:Rachel Higginson [Higginson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reckless Siren Publishing
Published: 2014-12-16T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Sebastian

Alright. This could be over now.

And if the bloke screaming at the top of his lungs would keep it down a pinch, that would be fantastic.

Oh, I was the bloke screaming at the top of his lungs.

I hadn’t meant to scream, or make any sound, really.

I felt a little like a pansy. Until the next electroshock of misery shot through my Magic and wrung another pained holler at out of me.

My stomach churned with sickness. The pain was so intense my body shook and shivered from it. But it wasn’t just the agonizing torture that got to me, it was the way Terletov went about inflicting pain.

Everything inside of me screamed that this was wrong, unnatural. Nothing should be able to touch my Magic like this. Nothing should be able to worm inside my very essence and twist and destroy and change what made me. This was my life. This Magic inside of me defined my very atoms and DNA. And Terletov had the power to scrape away at it until I knew that it would never be the same again.

He could turn my Magic into something ugly and less than what it should be.

And I hated him for that.

But not just for me. I hated him for all of the others he’d done this to already. I hated him for the humans that he’d kidnapped to experiment on and for turning them something that was unnatural and wrong for them.

And I really, truly, utterly hated him for touching Seraphina, for planning this despicable thing for her and her beautiful Magic.

I would not let that happen. I would not let him get near her and carry through with his sadistic methods of interrogation.

I would also never reveal Eden and Kiran’s whereabouts.

Which probably meant I would die.

I didn’t bother to follow that thought trail any further. I opted to start screaming again instead. That seemed a much more prudent use of my time.

My Magic seared through my body. But it didn’t stop there. My aura, the Magic that hovered around me, and could be used to manipulate the physical world, ached as well. I could feel pain everywhere. I breathed pain. My heart beat with pain. My thoughts were wholly consumed with pain. And I knew it would never end.

Terletov wouldn’t take my Magic because he wanted to keep me alive. Turning me into an empty husk that would wither and die would serve no purpose for him. He would keep me alive, but just barely. He would use me to leverage something he wanted.

Or maybe not.

Maybe he would continue to torture me without ever offering a trade. He probably believed he could eventually break me if he put on the right amount of pressure.

This fun little spa treatment he gave me today would never end. My future would be filled with days like this, all to get me to give him information that I could not.

Where was Eden and Kiran?

Truthfully, I had no idea.

Where were the babies?

Again… no clue.

What was my name again?

I’d forgotten that hours ago.

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