The Starlit Throne by Violet Wolfe

Author:Violet Wolfe [Wolfe, Violet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vega Narratives
Published: 2022-02-12T23:00:00+00:00

Stubborn

He snickers. “Didn’t he try to kill you?”

“Yes.”

“Doesn’t seem very kind.”

He’s right. I don’t know why I’m arguing in defense of Vulas when he doesn’t deserve it. It’s just so hard at times for me to forget the way he was. I’m holding onto it. But I’m gripping it too hard. It’ll make my hands bleed.

“You really didn’t deserve that. Even if you’re rude.” He sighs.

No. I didn’t.

“Have you ever seen him?” I’m curious. He must have.

He turns, eyes open now. “Yeah. I’m sure he looks different. You do.”

Do I? I suppose I must. “But you still recognized me. All twilight elves have these markings. But you knew mine.”

“They’re unique and I have a good memory.” It’s still a vague, not quite real, answer.

I press farther, hoping to get something else out of him. “You were close enough to me, whenever you saw me, to distinguish them.”

“Eagle eyes,” he smirks.

“No. I don’t buy it.” I shake my head. “You would need to have spent ample time with me to remember my face. You’re lying.”

His eyes aren’t meeting mine, they’re locked on the rest of my face. I see them following the line across my nose. This may have been the longest he’s stared at me. Except for when I almost stabbed him. My eyes trace down to his neck. The bleeding stopped, at least, but there’s a cut. I wonder if it’ll scar.

He jerks his head away, “I don’t think it matters much.” He sighs. “You don’t know me. Even if we met in another life, you’re too spacey to remember.”

“Is that why you hate me? Because I can’t remember you?”

Now I’m the one watching his face, but it’s unreadable. “Because you were some kid in a crowd that I overlooked?”

“You think I hate you?”

“Yes. You seem to have some vendetta against me. The first thing you ever did was call me entitled.” I state. “Did you work in the castle?” That’s how he saw me. It had to be. If he was a worker, he would have been close enough to me.

His loud laugh wakes a couple of the horses. “You must have a pretty low opinion of the King to think he hired children.”

“Then maybe your parents did, and you lived there with them.” I offer. I’m trying anything. “Or a shop during the festival.”

“Sorry to disappoint you. You’re wrong.”

Those were my only two options. Maybe I’m just reading too much into it.

Now I’m the one shivering. Through my chattering teeth, I ask, “Why won’t you just tell me? Why are you holding it over my head?”

His lips part, and the corners of his mouth turn upward. “It’s fun for me,” he admits in his low growl. “I couldn’t believe I ran into you. Of all the people, of all the places.” Everything he does is a game. I should know that by now.

“Can you imagine,” he continues, leaning a bit closer to me. His hand almost touches mine on the floor. “If you never find out who I am… and you need to live your very long life always being haunted by me? I’ll have won.

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