White Hyacinth by Abigail Owen

Author:Abigail Owen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, paranormal romance, young adult, fantasy romance, series, shifter, telepath, new adult, wolf shifters, upper ya
Publisher: Abigail Owen

Chapter 18

The sound of the lock turning alerted Selene, and she quickly sat down on the bed. She assumed her most regal posture—her back straight, ankles crossed daintily to the side, hands folded in her lap, and her face arranged into a cold, blank mask. She took a deep breath and braced herself for whoever was about to enter.

A man appeared and closed the door behind him with a soft click.

“Maddox,” Selene greeted coolly.

He stared at her in silence for several long moments. Selene refused to betray her unease by even a single bat of an eyelash. Decades of practice hiding her true thoughts and feelings from Gideon were certainly coming in handy now.

He tipped his head. “Ever the ice princess, huh, Selene?”

She ignored his comment. “Why have you brought me here?”

“To marry you.”

She struggled to keep a straight face, struck by the conflicting urges to laugh hysterically and to snort in derision. “Why? You have Zara.”

“Zara is willing to step aside for our cause.” He crossed his arms over his chest.

“And what does marrying me have to do with your cause?”

“If we are to continue with Gideon’s reign…” Maddox left the thought open.

“You must marry into the ruling family, or the Vyusher will never accept you as ruler.” Selene finished for him. She looked at her hands in her lap but didn’t really see them. “That makes no sense. You made a strategic mistake by getting me kicked out of the pack. And by trying to discredit me with those murders.”

Maddox gave her a sinister smile so reminiscent of Gideon that her skin crawled. “You let me worry about that.”

Selene rose to her feet, drawing herself up to her full height, chin tipped high. “I will never marry you.”

“We’ll see about that.”

He turned his back on her for a moment to open the door, and Selene wished with all her might for her wolf so she could claw him to pieces. But her power was still off. As she watched, Maddox accepted a tray of food from someone standing outside. He turned, placed it on the floor at his feet, and without so much as a backward glance, left the room.

Selene waited until the clicks of multiple locks being engaged sounded before she sank back on the bed. She had no doubt that Maddox had a specific plan and could do exactly what he’d said. Despair hung over her like a looming storm, one she was trying to hold at bay with sheer will. Without her powers, how was she supposed to get out of this mess?

* * *

As far as Selene could tell, she’d been held captive for a few days, which meant that she’d missed Christmas with the family, but it wasn’t quite New Year’s Eve yet. The only gauge she had to help her assess the passing of time was her meals. She’d been served six so far. That and the fact that the lights would go off for roughly four hours after long stretches of being on.

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