Heart of a Phoenix by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, urban fantasy, reverse harem, Paranormal Shifters Romance, urban fantasy fairy tales, urban fantasy heroine, Urban Fantasy Romance
Publisher: Margo Bond Collins
Published: 2020-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

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“...COMPLETE AND BLATANT disregard for authority, utter disrespect of the justice system, not to mention she shows no signs of remorse for her actions.”

“I stole one jewel,” I muttered, coming around to find a court—packed full of people—and a jury glaring at me.

“Oh, hi guys.” I grinned, rubbing sleep out of my eyes and giving a little wave. “Just took a little nap. Stun gun, you know how it is.”

“Someone shut her up,” the judge barked, which wasn’t very judge-ly if you asked me. Weren’t they meant to be upstanding citizens?

A Hero—I sensed his crackling power like ice crystals brushing my skin—touched the Perspex box I’d been dumped inside and I knew whatever I said now, no one outside would hear me until the judge deigned to allow it.

“With a criminal record that includes murder, accessory to murder, grievous bodily harm, arson, taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent—”

“Thomas stole that bus, not me,” I muttered. “And the ambulance wasn’t even my idea, so don’t put that on me, either.”

“Assault, affray,” the judge continued, “and crimes of a Villainous nature.”

“That’s not even a charge,” I complained. “You Hero bastards made it up.” Hanging around the street corner could get you arrested for crimes of a Villainous nature if you were found to have an ability and weren’t on the Hero register. Either you were a Hero—a universally recognised good guy—or you were a Villain. There was no in between in Satellite City. And since I’d been born with a mind compulsion ability ... yeah, there was no way they’d accept me on the Hero register.

“As Deadly Damsel, real name unknown, has shown no remorse for her actions—”

I never found out what my sentence was going to be, although we all knew it’d probably be beheading. Heroes were big on beheading, since only one super had managed to come back from it. Funny that as many people were killed by ‘Villainous’ crimes as were killed by the Heroes’ death sentencing.

The room started to shake—really fucking shake—and I flailed against the Perspex walls of the witness box as people in the benches in front of me went berserk. The whole courtroom was covered in metal veins to suppress our power but as the walls cracked and fractures raced from the doors at the far end of the court up the aisle towards me, I realised that if those branches of metal happened to break...

I grinned as the world went to hell around me.

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