Wrathful Wonderland by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989096307
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2019-01-23T06:00:00+00:00

“This is amazing,” Doria was saying as she hopped from one stump to another around the shadowed firepit. “We’ve got the real queen right here with us! Bye-bye, Hearts!”

Dee rubbed his hands together. “Can you imagine the look on their faces when they find out we know their claim on the throne is a bunch of bull? It’s going to be epic.”

“Completely epic!”

I watched them, wishing I could absorb their enthusiasm. My thoughts were racing around in my head as if they’d been sucked into a whirlpool that had no bottom. My balance felt rather unsteady too. I glanced toward the cave Lyssa had disappeared into with the Red Knight, torn between wanting to see her coming back to us right now and wanting to have the right words to say to her before she did.

I couldn’t say I didn’t see it. What quality would I want in a queen that Lyssa hadn’t proven she possessed in the past several days? Courage, compassion, determination, patience, smarts… The very fact that we’d made it here with the two artifacts no one before her had been able to retrieve showed she was meant for this role. I could picture her so easily standing with chin raised and eyes bright like she had when she’d insisted we set off on this quest, only with a crown resting on her head.

She hadn’t come here looking to wear a crown, though. She hadn’t meant to stay more than a couple of weeks. She wouldn’t be the Lyssa who lingered in my mind even while she was gone if she hadn’t cared so deeply for her loved ones in the Otherland.

And perhaps some selfish piece of me was niggling at me about where I could possibly fit into the life of a queen, if somehow she stayed.

Chess sidled closer to me, rubbing his hand over his auburn hair. He appeared to have fully recovered from his lapse in that field of vicious grass, but then, I suspected this was the sort of revelation that would shock any other emotion right out of your system. His gaze kept creeping back to the cave entrance too.

“Well, now we know why the Queen of Hearts was so obsessed with the idea that the Otherlanders named Alice were after her throne,” I remarked. “Even if she thought the princess was dead, it’d be hard to see that name as a coincidence. Especially when you’re a raging lunatic.”

“But not a lunatic on that score,” Chess said glibly. “She wasn’t being paranoid. They really were the echoes of her past come to haunt her.”

“Not on purpose,” I couldn’t help pointing out. I’d thought we were putting a lot on Lyssa just telling her about the Queen and the rebellion against her. This… She’d simply looked stunned as she’d followed the Red Knight to retrieve whatever he’d been keeping in that cave.

Theo’s arms were crossed over his chest in a pose that looked uncharacteristically defensive, but when he spoke, his voice was as steady and assured as always.

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