Charming as a Killer by Kendra Moreno EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Kendra Moreno
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AURELIA
“Aurelia, go! Save the baby!”
Those words still echo in my mind despite the many years
since I’d heard my sister shout them. Heavy words. Desperate
words. Words that had meant nothing. We’d been too late.
I’d lost many things that day. My mother. My nephew. My sister.
Myself.
Despite still being alive, despite that trauma that now lives in me, that
haunts my nightmares, I’m alive physically.
That scene feels as if it were eons ago, and in some aspect, it was. I’m
twenty-four now, but the years have gone far slower than they should have.
In the Grimm Forest, time moves normally and the inhabitants live longer,
but here, in the Enchanted Forest, a single year feels like a hundred. I’m
older now, more jaded, and still a bird trapped in a gilded cage.
Not long after Phillip captured me, the King of Warith had begun to
decline. Within the year of being trapped in the dungeons, the King had
died and Phillip had taken his place. But not all men make good kings.
Phillip is a terrible king, one who cares not for his people, only himself.
He’d immediately taken me from the dungeons and paraded me around his
palace like a trinket, declaring me his future bride. Lucky for me, Warith
believes that a woman is only ready for marriage at twenty-five. Unlucky
for me, I’ve been trapped here, desperately trying to free myself before I
reach that age. I’ve been unsuccessful.
But Warith was also a failing kingdom before I’d arrived, and in
Grimm, things were starting to decay all around us soon after I was
kidnapped. When the merges began appearing, Phillip’s grand idea to leave
Grimm and conquer somewhere new took over his mind, and ten years after
I was captured, what was left of his kingdom leapt through one of the
merges.
Now Warith exists in the Enchanted Forest.
Here, the trees sparkle more. They draw you in and hide their danger
behind glittering bark, but it’s no less dangerous. This world is hardly
different from Grimm when you think on it for too long. Two different
worlds, one purpose. A place for those of us desperate creatures to exist.
They’re both dangerous, both a prison for me.
I’d screamed and fought that day so long ago when I was taken. The
moment I realized I was a permanent prisoner, I fought again and tried to
fight my way out. Each time I escape, I’m dragged back screaming. Each
time I’ve tried to kill Phillip, I’m thwarted before I can ever stab a knife
through his heart. I’ve been too weak, but the longer I’m here, the stronger I
grow.
I will not be that monster’s trinket forever.
Now, I’ll be twenty-five in a matter of weeks and Phillip had been
looking forward to this day with unconcealed anticipation. His appearance
disgusts me, the way his receding hairline highlights his strained visage.
The way grease stains his shirt, and he doesn’t care. The way those horrible
eyes take me in as I sit at the lessons he insists I need to be his Queen.
And his incubator.
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