Goddess Crown by Shade Lapite

Author:Shade Lapite [Lapite, Shade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781536234688
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2023-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

BACK IN HER ROOM AFTER A DIFFICULT CLIMB DOWN, KALOTHIA lay on her bed and let the anger and hurt war within her. She ignored her meal when it came, leaving Ye-Ye to pick at it as he willed. She didn’t know what to do and she had no one to turn to. Her family—the only one she’d known—was dead. And she was just a job to Nahir. A duty.

Shame licked her insides. Her thoughts were as lethal as knives handled blade first. She had considered him family, all that she had left. Foolish, foolish Kalothia.

Nahir had a family. Three brothers and one sister. He had parents and likely a legion of extended family members who loved him. She was the one desperate for connections. So desperate she’d cry over a man who’d lied to her for their whole acquaintance. Yet the tears soaked her face and refused to stop though she scrubbed at them furiously. Goddess damn him and this hateful room she was locked in.

Outside, the sky had dimmed to a gray evening light. She stared at the ceiling in the growing gloom. What did she want? Her family was gone. All she could salvage on their behalf were answers and punishment for their murders. She couldn’t allow their deaths to go unmarked, unavenged, like her mother’s.

She sat up, energy coursing through her. Her attackers had come from the royal court, and she was in that court right now; she needed to make sure this was where she stayed, and that meant proving her claim to the throne.

Also, there was a part of her that wanted to stand up to the lords who thought they could have everything their own way. They were not heirs to the throne. She was.

And there was another part of her, the part that was twisting in pain and crying that she had lost Nahir a second time, that craved the distraction of danger, or taking action.

They’d passed the Ibeso Caves on the way to the palace. She could find her way back there. She’d bring them a kori egg, or she’d die trying. It wasn’t like anybody would miss her.

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