The Lost Dreams by Cait Marie

Author:Cait Marie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cait Marie

Chapter 4

4 years later…

Elin idly traced a finger over the rose on the handle of her dagger, listening to Jane ramble on and on about Joseph’s proposal. She was happy for her friend, but she was distracted. She kept thinking about the letter she received that day from Prince Emyr. He had grown distant in recent months, and then he’d gone with his father to Rayerna for the summer. He’d written only a few times. And now, he claimed he needed to talk to her about something important when he returned.

She missed him. They’d been near inseparable since the day they met, and she wasn’t sure what was going on with him. Rumors had spread that the royals were in Rayerna to negotiate a marriage alliance. The thought made her stomach churn.

To keep herself occupied, Elin had trained more and consumed all the stories on the Nihryst that she could. Loxley and his crew hadn’t returned since he’d saved her life. She liked to think they were out sailing the seas, living adventures she read about in storybooks. But she feared for them.

O’ Chwedlau had more accurate stories than the rest of the world, but they still didn’t have all the pieces. And the last of Willa’s family left shortly after her death, no longer wanting to remain a part of their legacy, so no one could ask them for more details.

It had become an obsession. Elin needed to break the curse. She wanted so badly to free the Nihryst—to be a part of their story. So, when Emyr had brought her to the royal library and showed her their collection of books on the war, she nearly cried upon finding the answers. Like everything else, they had been hidden away, written like a children’s fairy tale, with its gilded pages and pretty designs along the map inside. It was written by Queen Mariella herself.

She was sure Emyr hadn’t known that it told everything. The symbols showed pieces of the curse no one could read, but when the prince left her for a council meeting one day this past spring, letting her stay in the library, she’d pulled out the hidden journal within. It had been so small, so thin. Unless someone read every page of the thick book, no one would have noticed it. And judging by the dust it had collected, it hadn’t been touched in decades, if not longer.

But it told the true story. It was Mariella’s more private account of what had happened, down to the wording of the curse and the pieces of the prophecy she’d learned from a seer in the dungeon.

“Elin.” Jane snapped a finger in front of her face. “Are you paying attention?”

She shook her head to clear her thoughts. “Sorry.”

“He’ll be back any day,” her friend said with a sad smile.

Elin’s brow furrowed. She didn’t think Loxley would return any time soon.

“Joseph heard from one of the other guards that the king and prince would be back this week.”

Oh. She put on her own smile.

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