Knight of Swords by Arabella Kingsley

Author:Arabella Kingsley [Kingsley, Arabella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The silence that settled over the forest bore an echo of defeat around my knights. I could not bear its weight or the intensity of my rage. Juliet would not escape me so easily. I would not allow that monster to defile her so she could keep me or any other safe. Yet, I feared we had little time before Sebastian joined them both as mates. I narrated all that had passed in the vision to my knights. It caused much consternation and debate as to what should be done. I voiced my intention that we should urgently continue our pursuit without further delay, but Gabriel spoke up, a note of caution in his tone.

‘Nathan, Juliet will be safe. We have more time than you think. She has been poisoned by animal blood. Sebastian will not perform the ritual until the poison has left her body. If he did, it would weaken his ailing health further. He won’t take the risk. The poison will take a few days, maybe longer, to clear from Juliet.’

He paused to rest his hand on my shoulder as I shook my head, ‘I will not wait. I cannot.’

‘I understand Nathan, but Juliet is not just your mate, she is our Queen. We have all been waiting for her for a long time, some of us since the last Queen was murdered in sixteen fifty-one. We all feel the same as you, but she wants you to take care of the children. Our Queen has given us an order. We must obey it. The children must come first and she second.’

I stared at him with distaste, but logic assured me his words were wise, his sense sound. His tense features visibly relaxed when I slowly nodded. I looked around at the branches of the trees heavily laden with snow, feeling the chill of a winter’s breeze on the air. ‘We must hurry and find them before they become lost in the forest. They are still human, and will die of the cold if we do not. Let us leave the horses here. We will make better haste running.’

Gabriel agreed and everyone prepared to leave. I instructed the men to reach out with their minds in the hope that some of the children were open to being contacted mentally. But it was not until we began running through the bare, cold forest, approaching towards the edge of the village where they had been callously left to freeze by Sebastian, that my call was answered.

I connected with two older girls who were shepherding the others through the forest. They were confused, unsure as to why Sebastian had cast them out of their home. Having been incarcerated in their dungeon since birth, they knew little of the outside world. They did not know what to do, or where to go. They were unsurprised that I could talk to them through their minds. Their surrogate father, Sebastian, had told them many times of the powers they were to gain in future life.

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