Stolen Queen: A Dark Captive Romance by Jesi Donovan

Author:Jesi Donovan [Donovan, Jesi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

BRAY

The golden halo of the sun in my room slowly starts to disappear. Little by little, it inches down the floor. It is replaced by moonlight beaming through the window. Where the gold once stood, now there is a halo of white.

Chunks of my life pass in darkness. I try to make myself comfortable on the bed, but I’m too weak to move into the position I want to be in, which is stretched out and under five layers of blankets. I fall asleep freezing only to wake up sweating, no longer wanting to be under any blankets at all.

Fausto comes around when the sun is up and again when the moon is high in the sky. He shifts into his wolf form and communicates with me telepathically. How are you doing, Bray?

I don’t have the strength to respond. My head is filled with thoughts of pain and anger. Does that tell him how I’m feeling? How much more explicit can I be?

It feels like an eternity passes between the time the moon wanes and the sun grows high in the sky. I want to sleep, but sometimes the process of my body healing is too much for me to sleep through. Healing at an accelerated pace, my ass. It feels like I’m stuck in a hospital bed getting drip-fed poison. My whole body feels like it’s on fire.

Fausto returns with bandages. This time he stays in his human form while he tinkers with my legs. I expect pain to explode inside of me like a fireworks show, but these rockets are a bust—and I’m thankful. Instead of being enveloped in throbbing, stabbing, shooting sensations, I am treated to a dull roar.

“Your wounds are looking better today,” Fausto announces as he wraps my legs again. “Another day and you’ll probably be good as new.”

Good as new? Who does he think I am? I’m not the type of person to rise from this bed and appreciate that I’ve been given another day to live. The second I’m able to get up, I’m storming the Cersei district. I’m killing everyone that I come across. Then when I find the fucking wolf that did this to me, I’m tearing him apart slowly limb from limb until he’s a head on a spike watching his body burn to ash.

Revenge keeps me afloat. I drift from cloud to cloud, imagining the blood I’ll spill in retaliation. They won’t see me coming. They won’t expect a rabid, feral wolf to risk everything just for a little retribution.

Arcturus eventually comes to see me. He has a crutch stuck under his armpit and his face has faded bruises. He walks with a limp and I can’t tell if it’s because of his wounds or the crutch, maybe it’s both. “I wanted to see how you’re doing. Fausto says you won’t talk to him.”

It has nothing to do with Fausto and everything to do with making it through this hellish ordeal with my wits intact. If I succumb to the pain, I will lose my nerve.

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