The Daughter Of Lava (#3 Reclaimed Souls Series) by Della Roth

Author:Della Roth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

“I FIGURED YOU’D BE dead by now,” I say. “What a shame. Your face looks like shit.”

I might sound confident. Cocky, even, but in actuality, for some reason, my vision is blurry. I can barely see a few feet in front of me. Either it’s the water getting into my eyes or my body’s just about to shut down due to exhaustion.

“Shut up!” she screams.

Why hasn’t she attacked me yet? Then a searing pain explodes in my shoulder. White Rose’s fingernails dig in relentlessly before she pulls away from me. I’m instantly awake.

We are alone on the bridge.

“It’s worse than you know,” she says cryptically. Only one side of her face works. The blueblood spikes I embedded in her face yesterday made the entire right side slack. Then I notice she’s holding onto the bridge’s hand rope like it’s the only thing she’s capable of doing.

“What are you talking about?”

“Outside. It’s an ambush no one is expecting. If you go out there, you will be slaughtered.”

“Why should I listen to you? You tried to kill me earlier.”

“That’s before I understood everything. Before I realized the Grandfather was using me for his own purposes. But it’s bigger than that. It always has been, but I’ve been too stupid to see it before now. When you spoke about your brother, I knew I could never kill you because of him.”

I narrow my eyes at her. “What does my brother have to do with any of this?”

White Rose starts laughing hysterically. “Everything, Rahda. Do you remember the apple orchard?”

I shove her away from me and she nearly slips and falls, but she still laughs as if she has nothing left to lose.

“You’re using my own speech against me. That’s how you know about the apple orchard.”

“You don’t remember me, do you? You caught us kissing once, Pareu and me, behind my father’s house. I think you were twelve. Why do you think he kept coming to my father’s orchard? He didn’t even like apples. But you did.”

I loved those apples. I loved escaping with Pareu.

A distant memory resurfaces of finding Pareu kissing—more than kissing, actually—a girl with white blonde hair. Then, later on, the same girl up in the trees waiting for us. Waiting for Pareu. Pareu telling her… secrets.

What secrets? I wrack my brain.

And yet here she is in front of me, delaying me, probably hoping to confuse me.

“So you knew my brother. Big deal. I’d say it’s an odd coincidence, but nothing that would convince me to spare your life.” I pull out my dagger.

White Rose smiles at me like a lunatic. “I can assure you that that’s not necessary.” She moves closer to the hand rope and then swings one leg over, then the other. “I don’t have much time left. I can feel the poison entering my brain.”

“What are you doing?” I scream at her, sheathing my dagger.

At that moment, I hear someone yelling to my left, though the rushing water conceals the actual words. But my soul knows the voice.

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