To Break a Dark Cage: A dark enemies to lovers fantasy romance (The Iron Crystal Quartet Book 3) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

Author:Kathryn Ann Kingsley [Kingsley, Kathryn Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Second Sky
Published: 2024-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Even with the constant jostling of the cart and the creak of the wheels, Gwen nodded off. She’d hoped her nap would be peaceful. Normal.

Nope.

But it wasn’t Mordred’s dreams she found herself in. Wherever she had suddenly found herself—it wasn’t Avalon. Not because the landscape was any weirder than anything she had seen on the island, but because the sky was entirely wrong.

Because it was purple.

Solid purple.

With black clouds.

To say that it was a little fucked up would be to put it mildly.

That was before she considered the fact that the trees weren’t trees at all, but enormous, glowing mushrooms. They stretched a hundred feet above her like evergreens. This must be how Alice would have felt. Jeez. She didn’t like how small it made her feel, even if the rest of the strange, jungle-like environment was exactly how she would have expected it. Ferns, vines, other smaller trees and shrubs. Just purple sky, black clouds, and enormous goddamn super-mushrooms.

“Where the hell am I?”

Something told her that was exactly where she was, however. Hell. She wasn’t sure how she knew. She just did. Probably because if she was in someone else’s dreams, she knew because they knew.

And if she was in hell?

There was only one person who could be responsible for this.

Letting out a heavy sigh, she started walking down a trail through the overgrowth. The air was filled with chirps and animal cries that she didn’t recognize. She supposed this was better than fields of lava with screaming, tortured souls—or some sort of Martian wasteland. She hadn’t really thought too much about what hell must look like.

Rounding a corner, she heard voices. She ducked close to the tree, not wanting to be seen yet. What she saw was even more surprising and strange than the giant mushrooms and purple-black sky.

It was Grinn.

Though she almost didn’t recognize him.

It was his voice that gave him away. He was sitting in the middle of a clearing, talking with someone outside of her line of sight. He looked… healthy. She couldn’t count his ribs or the ridges of his spine. His eyes were both there, as were his horns and his fangs. He didn’t look like a half-starved, mangy, demonic alley cat. He still was very much a monster, but a healthy one. His ribs weren’t showing, and his coat was shiny and clean.

And if she wasn’t mistaken, whoever he was talking to, he was smiling at. That was even weirder than the purple sky. She crept closer, peering around the tree to see who it was.

It was another demon, one that looked similar to Grinn, at least in species. But this one was smaller in frame and didn’t have horns. The voice was decidedly feminine, and she was lying on the edge of the clearing, telling Grinn some sort of story about hunting the wildlife. They were laughing about it, though Gwen was too far away to really make out the details.

That must be his wife.

It was a second later when there was a rustle in the bushes behind Grinn.

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