Widow: A Gothic Reverse Harem Romance (The Rift Bride Book 3) by Ada Dart

Author:Ada Dart [Dart, Ada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Painted Blind Publishing
Published: 2023-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

Dear Sable required no persuasion to extend her evening in town and indulge in the circus with me, but my step-mother could not let off working and so tearfully kissed me good-bye before setting off to her shift about an hour later. Waiting with excitement in her parlor, Sable and I reminisced until the sunlight faded and left the stars nakedly exposed in the sky. Her excitement was for the carnival as much as for our happy memories of it, and for my good timing to have given us a chance to relive those memories together. My excitement was for something else altogether: something I could not explain.

What was I hoping to get out of the fortune-teller? I wasn’t sure. It seemed to me, after all, that my greatest time of joy rested in the past; and if Dinon would not tell me where Glenn and Rosina were, was it not the height of foolishness to inquire with this rogue fortune-teller, this Riftborn carnival worker whose interests had no reason to be aligned with mine? Dinon, at least, owed me loyalty, however forced or motivated by some strange bond he felt we shared.

Yet this old man, this alien whose very name was unknown to me, had no reason to serve me. Not even my station as Matrix of Gudrune could prove motivation for an itinerant like him to provide me with useful information, I suspected.

So why did my heart race with excitement as we made our way through the carnival? Why did I view every amusement as a banal distraction between myself and the fortune-teller? As Sable stopped off in the games to use her token and then my purse to throw balls at bottles and shoot cardboard replicas of Rift beasts, all of which Eleison accomplished with skill so sure that I could see the game masters growing alert with displeasure, I tried to look patient, but I could not stop my occasional fidgeting sigh. He had disappeared so quickly last time, after all; and though there was no Rift Event now, could he not just as easily choose to roll up his little tent and shut down for the night as quickly as the time before?

“I can take you, Matrix,” Dinon said in my ear, his words vibrating through my body and exciting my flesh into goosebumps. Feeling my pleasure—and noting Eleison was occupied in winning my sister a really quite adorable stuffed borro—Dinon let his lips graze the ridge of my ear, then brush a kiss just behind it. “He will not leave until he has seen you; but I can tell you’re sick of waiting.”

“The way you feast off pain, I would think my displeasure would only excite you.”

My words were very soft, but Eleison was primed for the sound of my voice, and Dinon had less than a second to lean away from me before my mate glanced over to see if I was speaking to him. Innocently standing at my side, Dinon smiled, and I smiled along with him.

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