Twist: A Fairy Tale Awakening (Spindlewind Trilogy Book Two) by Genevieve Raas

Author:Genevieve Raas [Raas, Genevieve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ravenwell Press
Published: 2017-10-10T07:00:00+00:00

Fate dragged a woman out from behind the door, clutching his fingers into her matted, chestnut hair.

“Here is your example,” Fate said, throwing her down.

Her palms skidded across the flint and her knees cracked hitting the rock.

The woman breathed heavily, her face turned down towards the stone. Her fingers dug into the mortar, as if preparing to resist being dragged back to her cell.

“What have you done?” I seethed, kneeling down besides the woman. Scabs and bruises speckled her knuckles. Cuts tore through the fraying fabric of her gown, as if shredded by the claws of some creature.

My heart rushed in my ears. Fear took hold crumbling my strength. I’d been fooled once already. The thought I had to touch her, to check, was almost unacceptable.

“Blamed again,” Fate replied. “I’ve done nothing. You see the results of her own torment. This place has not been as kind to her as you. Those ravaged by guilt and unable to forget the past usually don’t fare well here. I suppose I needn’t tell you that. Look where we are now thanks to your own inabilities to move on. We are only back in this dungeon because of your own remorse. At least she will be already used to the view.”

I stared at the crumpled creature on the floor. Her gaze remained frozen on the ground, but the flame in her soul blazed. Spoke to me, just as it had so many years ago.

I stretched out my hand towards her, my fingers trembling as if trying to touch the mist of a ghost. Lifting her chin I gasped as her battered eyes locked on my own.

Laila.

Unequivocally.

Purple bruises painted her skin. A cut of congealed blood clung to the corner of her mouth. Though it was hard to see the woman who had enraptured me so completely beneath the blue and black, she was still there. Un-aged. As if time had forgotten her.

Her gaze narrowed, and hope mixed with anger boiled in her eyes.

“You,” she rasped.

She tensed beneath my touch. I begrudgingly let my hand fall away. I didn’t want to cause her any further distress.

“You must give her time to warm up to you again,” Fate said. “She has had nineteen years to think on what you did to her. Perhaps she finally realized the type of man you truly are.”

I stood and faced Fate. Everything in me yearned to destroy him.

“You let me believe she was dead.”

“I never said she was dead. I said she wasn’t at the party above, and she wasn’t. She was here,” he said. “Of course it took a bit of coaxing, but the Furies ended up being quite accommodating.” Fate bent down and grabbed Laila’s chin. He squeezed into her skin, turning her head left and then right as if admiring her complexion. “She should be grateful, really. Not devoured and not looking a day over twenty-one.”

I grasped Fate’s arm and tore it away from Laila’s jaw, causing Laila to make a sound from the back of her throat.

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