The Guardians of the Aspis by Sarah L Rose EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Sarah L Rose
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Eyes down. Don’t react. Blend in.
My methods of staying alive had worked for twenty-five years. It
ended one blistering cold morning when the Keepers of the Law
knocked on the wooden door of my run-down shack. Their shouts had been
my only warning.
“Olivia Dacla!”
Someone had sold me out, and the betrayal would lead me to my
eventual death. I abandoned everything and ran.
I’d been fleeing the Keepers for what felt like hours, swallowing my
pain. But to what end? I knew what I would find when my feet stopped:
death or prison. Although, I may have lost that second option.
My feet slid on the soft needles of the forest floor. My lungs were as
much on fire as my throat. I was too thin and too weak to make it.
The snow didn’t reach the ground thanks to the tall cedars, making it
harder to follow my tracks. But the men were following me.
“Shit.” I ran under a low-hanging branch. It caught my wool hat and
tore it from my head. My dark blonde hair tangled around me, catching in
my mouth, and I struggled to spit it out.
That’s when I lost sight of the path. My foot caught on a root, and my
leg twisted, sending me face-first to the cedar-covered ground.
My warm breath swirled around me as the colours of the forest grew
bright. I brought a hand to my lips. Blood stained the tips of my finger.
I listened for the number of Keepers still tracking me or how close they
might be. Holding my breath, I concentrated on the sounds of the forest,
trying to silence the racket in my chest.
A minute passed before I picked up a distant hissing—a rushing river. I
made another reckless plan. I would cross the river, hopefully losing the
trackers in the process.
“What were you thinking?” I scolded myself. I pressed my frozen
fingers to my temples.
I hadn’t been thinking. God, I had nowhere to go. The only comfort I
would find after fleeing the Keepers was that my last breath would be
where I chose it. I’d finally meet the god of death. The tall, dark figure my
mother told tales of.
As I went to stand, a fierce pain leapt up my leg. I sat back, landing hard
against a tree, my good foot sliding on the needles and snow.
“No, no, no.” The back of my head thudded against the hard bark of the
tree. My right ankle was probably broken.
If I could go back to just a few weeks ago, tucked in the warm sheets in
Stephen’s cottage, candles lit and the fire crackling …
He was the most handsome man in our village, with beautiful golden
hair. Every young woman wanted the Keepers to select them to be his bride.
I had been his secret—everything we did had to be a secret.
But at this moment, with my muscles tensing from the pain, I could not
remember the warmth of his hands or how his mouth travelled my body.
Lips I would never feel again.
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