A Story of Sinners: Darkest Dynasty Book Two by Mellie T. Tollem

Author:Mellie T. Tollem [Tollem, Mellie T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Ryken

It had become clear to me, as I watched Dahlia and that male who called himself a god from behind the walls of her room, that I made a huge mistake. With my eye pressed against the small opening in the wood, I watched it all play out before my eyes: the tickling, the arguing, the playful banter, the shadow puppet show. I’d left her weak and vulnerable, giving him the perfect opportunity to squeeze into the crevices of the heart I had hollowed.

My stomach dropped at the smirk he’d delivered in the banquet hall, a look so dark and sinister that it sent chills racking down my spine. He knew. This male from Dahlia’s childhood knew the truth, knew Dahlia had been rejected by me, and he relished in the opportunity. He fled the ballroom quickly, and there wasn’t a doubt in my mind where he planned to go next. I followed, despite Eulalia and Fin’s objections, desperate to end whatever he planned.

That’s how I found myself here, sneaking through the hidden passageways I used to stalk in protecting and serving the former king. Every bone in my body urged me to burst through the wall and put an end to this display, to kill him in his tracks as shadows flowed through his hands and coalesced against the wall, forming a strange sort of moving art.

But I couldn’t help but watch and listen as he described a tale of vileness, of cruelty. The history of Dahlia’s childhood was laid bare for my listening and visual entertainment, secrets she would never tell me, no matter how I might urge her to open. I couldn’t help but take the opportunity to discover more about her, to learn why she had always been so secretive.

It was clear now: she’d spent her life running from the male who now made himself at home alongside her. She’d been secretive about her past because she’d been terrified, yet she still gave the demon the time of day. He’d hit some nostalgic soft spot and found a way to burrow himself inside her head.

My fists clenched as the show ended and she chased after him, questions burning against her lips, and my breathing stilled as he mentioned her parentage. My parentage. Everything he said was a lie. It had to be. I knew who my parents were. I knew where I came from.

I gritted my teeth at the memory of my brother and his final claims then shook my head. No, this demon was just that: a manipulator intended on brainwashing those around him, especially my little crow. If he could convince her she didn’t know me, then it would paint him in a better light.

He disappeared in a whirlwind of smoke and shadows, and I lifted my foot, prepared to charge in after her now that she was alone. A slight shifting in the air of the room halted me. I peered in through the crack in the wall, searching the room for some sort of change, and there it was.

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