Veil Knights Box Set 1 by Rowan Casey

Author:Rowan Casey [Casey, Rowan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harbinger Books

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Dani laid in a pool of her own vomit and blood in a stygian darkness that seemed to extend forever around her, and she despaired. Her hands were bound in front of her, the coarse rope cutting into her broken right wrist a constant agonizing reminder. Her head felt ten sizes too large and her left eye wouldn’t open fully. Not that there was anything to see.

She laid there wondering if her ripped stitches in her thigh would help her bleed out more quickly or if the head injuries would claim her first when she heard a cough to her left followed by a pained sob.

Sophie. Dani pulled herself out of the pit of despair. Sophie was here and breathing.

“Sophie,” she whispered through cracked and swollen lips.

“Here,” Sophie said, sounding about as strong as Dani did. “My hands are tied but not my legs, you?”

Dani could barely feel her legs. They were cold and her thigh wound was a dull throb that pulsed in time with her heartbeat. She kicked experimentally with her feet and found them unbound. She had no shoes on. She’d been in bed in nothing but a sundress when the hunters had come and as far as she could tell, that’s still all she wore.

“Feet are free,” she said. “I think my stitches tore though. And my wrist is broken.”

“So we’ve got three good hands and three good legs between us,” Sophie said.

Dani wanted to kiss the other woman just then. Making a joke, sad as it was, at a time like this brought a weird kind of hope to Dani’s heart. She wasn’t alone and Sophie was cognizant enough and brave enough to help her.

“There’s a wall here, it feels like stone,” Sophie said and Dani heard a dull thud.

“The floor does, too,” Dani said, scraping the foot of her good leg against it. “Can you come to me?”

“Hum or something so I can follow your voice,” Sophie said.

Dani started humming one of the few songs that she knew. She heard scraping and scrabbling and then Sophie’s bound hands touched her bruised face. Dani stopped humming and winced, pulling back.

“Sorry,” Sophie said. “Did you have to hum ‘Living on a Prayer’ though? Seriously?”

“It was always on the radio at the doctor’s office,” Dani said. It was the first song that had come to mind. All the others she knew were hymns and their church hadn’t been that big on song so there were precious few of those.

Sophie’s hands returned, feeling down Dani’s shoulder and then her arm to her bound wrists. “I think I might be able to work on this knot, but it’s going to hurt, sorry.”

“Do what you have to,” Dani said. She gritted her teeth and tried to think about something, anything else as Sophie went to work blindly picking and pulling at the knot.

Her mind went to Perce’s pale, scared face as he knelt by her side after she fell from the tree. She’d never seen him so close to tears before.

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