[2016] The Bride Trials by Jessica Parker

Author:Jessica Parker [Parker, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781537069111
Google: WzMhvgAACAAJ
Amazon: 153706911X
Goodreads: 31619553
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-08-19T06:00:00+00:00

“Was there anything else?”

“Not that I saw, but I wasn’t really looking.”

Ditran felt his hopes fall a little. He knew it was irrational, but he had so many questions about the day his father died. The stories he’d been told by guards and servants about his father’s death never quite matched what was written in the report of the battle. He once asked Sonovo what happened, pointing out the discrepancies. His uncle yelled that it was because of the Rebels his Father was dead and not to bring it up again. Ditran never brought it up again, but it didn’t stop him from wondering.

There was no body to bury; his father was gone, like a puff of smoke on the wind. It was suspected the Rebels had taken the body to keep the King and Ditran from having closure. An ongoing torment.

Shortly after he had been told his father was dead, Ditran had created stories about how his father would escape from the Rebels and return as he always promised. Ditran had even made a game of it, sometimes pretending in the orchard that his father was fighting the rebels and Ditran would rescue him from their clutches.

The lump of metal he held in his hands dashed that hope. His father would not have left it behind. Tears stung his eyes, and he blinked them away before they could fall. Crying is a sign of weakness, and he was not weak. That's what his Uncle always told him when he was younger.

As he came out of his thoughts, he found Keyla looking down at him expectantly. She must have stood while he was lost in thought. “Did you say something?”

She smiled and shook her head. “I asked—” “Your neck!” He blurted it out. “The line, the mark, it’s gone.” Before Keyla could reply, Emre came running towards them. “Heir Ditran, we must return to the city at once. Rebels.”

“Where?”

“I don't know. Captain Drake told me to take you back to the city immediately.”

Ditran quickly got up from the ground, “Lead the way.” Ditran and Keyla followed Emre without saying another word. When they reached the shortcut back to the city, ice shot out of the bushes. Emre immediately put up a wall of flames, but his wall did not block the ice from the other side of the path. Ditran saw Keyla try to put up a wall the way Emre had, but nothing happened. The ice hit her, and she fell backwards to the ground. Before Ditran could stop it, the ice grew around her, pinning her to the ground. She struggled to get free, but was only able to take one last breath before the clear barrier froze around her completely.

Ditran had never been in a real battle, only sparred against those who couldn't hurt him unless they wanted to be punished by Sonovo. What he found himself in now was chaotic. The one clear thought in his mind was, you took my father, you will not take me.

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