The Misfit and the Bear (The Shifter Games Book 1) by Sloane Meyers

Author:Sloane Meyers [Meyers, Sloane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-08T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Four hours later, Zora finally made it back home. She’d had to leave Oskar behind in the medical wing to make an appearance with her family on the winner’s podium. She always found it strange that the shifters who had actually fought and won their matches weren’t the ones who received trophies. Instead, the families who had trained the winning shifters received trophies, flowers, and general admiration from the entire crowd at the Arena, as though they had actually done something to deserve admiration.

All they did was force these poor men to leave behind their lives and families. Zora kept a smile plastered on her face through the ceremony, but she said little. She dutifully shook hands when her family went to greet the crowds, but inside her heart felt black and cold. She fantasized about leaving behind Gilt Hollow and running away with Oskar, but where would they go? They couldn’t make it hundreds of miles through the wilderness with winter on their heels, and a Severson disappearing at the same time as a shifter would be a scandal for the history books. Every guard and soldier in Gilt Hollow would be sent chasing after them until they were found and Oskar was killed. Oskar wasn’t the only one living in a gilded cage. Zora had spent her life in one, and while she was treated much better than him, she had no more hope than he did of ever escaping.

Zora begged off dinner, saying she was exhausted. Then she went to her room and lay down, waiting impatiently for the house to grow quiet. It took a long time. Her father and brother drank and celebrated late into the night. But around two in the morning, things finally settled down. Zora slipped out of her room and began wandering through the house, double checking to make sure that all of her family was asleep. She wore a simple pair of soft, loose drawstring pants and a fitted long-sleeved shirt, both in soft cotton. This type of clothing was apparently all the rage in the bigger cities these days, and Zora’s mother had asked their tailor to make Zora several outfits like this. Zora didn’t care much about fashion, but at least this latest fashion consisted of comfortable clothes. Many of the popular looks of the past that Zora had been forced to wear had been wildly uncomfortable.

After wandering for about twenty minutes, Zora felt convinced that her family was all asleep. In fact, her father and brother would probably sleep like rocks for several hours, passed out from all the alcohol they had consumed. Taking a deep breath and chewing nervously at her lower lip, Zora made her way toward the wing of the estate where the shifter quarters were located.

She’d checked with the cooks a few hours ago to see whether Oskar was back in his room, pretending to be interested in whether he was eating and regaining strength. The cooks had assured her that he was indeed back, although he didn’t seem to be interested in eating.

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