A Wish of Ashes and Glass: A Cinderella Retelling (Fairy Tale Wishes Book 2) by Selina A. Fenech

Author:Selina A. Fenech [Fenech, Selina A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fairy Tale, cinderella, fantasy romance, sapphic, lgbtq
Publisher: Fairies and Fantasy Pty Ltd
Published: 2023-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

I don’t know how I made it from the tree back into the house and into bed. The journey was a blur, and I didn’t recall much of the night after taking on the fire-breather’s wounds. Only pain. So much pain. As though pain would be all I’d ever know. All I would ever be cursed with.

But I awoke the next morning, and my mind was clear. My body again felt refreshed, as though I’d slept a hundred years. My hands stung bitterly, the deep heat still burning beneath the scorched flesh. But there were already signs they were healing, sections where the blisters peeled away to show fresh pink skin beneath. Still, the remaining wounds made all my morning chores excruciating.

I feared punishment at being slow at setting breakfast again, but the rest of the family slept late and wandered in yawning without a question to the time.

“What a night!” Audred exclaimed as she reached for a slice of fresh bread. “Oh, Cinders, did you miss out on the drama!”

I quirked my eyebrows. “Did I? What happened?”

“Someone tried to blow up the king!” Asterra interrupted Audred to a replied flash of anger.

“Surely not,” I replied.

Trolaine joined us then, and the sisters drew themselves in, postures fixed, faces set into their placating smiles, and voices silenced.

“Don’t show yourself to be so excited by tragedy, or one might think you wish the king to pass,” he scolded them.

Asterra offered very timidly, “It would, though, make Prince Creston the king, which would make the one he chooses to marry his queen.”

Trolaine smacked his lips, and his moustache quivered. “That it would. And we made our good impression on him last night.”

I withheld a scoff.

“I feel he didn’t much show interest in me.” Audred sounded exhausted. “But it almost seemed that he didn’t show much interest in anyone. Do you think there will be another ball?”

Asterra muttered, “There was that one woman he chased after right before the explosion. The one in the beautiful golden dress.”

I stiffened, holding my breath, but nobody turned to accuse me.

“I heard others saying they saw the same mystery woman fleeing after the statue fell as well,” Asterra added.

Audred perked up a little, drawn into the intrigue. “Not one of the princesses? There are so many I can hardly keep track. But I heard someone saying the king’s daughters may be suspects. Which seems ridiculous to me, since the king’s death would only make Creston king.”

“And surely Creston would not harm his father, with him being so ill anyway,” Asterra nodded back.

“Surely all of this is gossip and hearsay that is beneath us!” Trolaine wiped his mouth on a napkin and thumped it back to the table. “It’s clear that the attack last night was by the fire-breather. Whether he had accomplices or not matters little to us.”

The sisters stilled as Trolaine snapped his fingers at me for a refill of his tea.

But Asterra’s eyes widened until she blurted out, “But what if the attacks weren’t meant to

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