Beauty’s Twisted Tyrant (FILTHY FAIRY TALES) by Nichole Rose EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Nichole Rose
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Thalia
THE WOODS ARE SUPPOSED to be lovely, dark, and deep. At least,
that’s what Robert Frost said. He was right on two counts. But I don’t
think he ever spent time alone deep in the heart of the forest at dusk with a
sleeping curse creeping up on him. If he had, I don’t think he would have
called them lovely. Terrifying is a more fitting descriptor from where I’m
standing.
“Keep it together, Thalia,” I say, forcing myself to put one foot in front of
the other. “You can do this.” The encouragement would sound far more
convincing if my voice didn’t shake, causing the words to slur together.
I blink rapidly, trying to keep the narrow road at my feet in focus. The
curse claws at the edges of my consciousness, trying to drag me under its
wicked reign.
It’s a feeling I’ve grown intimately familiar with.
For the last ten years of my life, it’s won every night. As soon as the sun
sets, I plummet to the ground, dead asleep. For twelve hours, I’m nothing
but a body tethered to the earth by an ancient magic cast upon me simply
because I’m a Rosewood. I wasn’t even the one cursed. It was my great,
great, great, great, great, greatgreatgreat grandmother.
Everyone knows that story. It involves a spindle, a hundred-year curse,
and a cranky sorceress. At least, everyone thinks they know the story. The
finer details—like the fact that every female born with Rosewood blood
since then has carried part of that curse—were lost along the way.
I’m one of those women. Like my grandmother and hers, I live half a life.
The other half, I’m doomed to sleep like the dead—unfeeling, unaware,
oblivious. Until my true love kisses me and breaks the spell, this is my fate.
You will marry him, Thalia. That’s an order.
My father’s raised voice echoes in my head, his shouted decree
momentarily snapping through the fog of exhaustion. Until today, I always
believed I had a chance of breaking the curse. He shattered that illusion and
my faith.
In a matter of weeks, he expects me to marry a prince I’ve never met
simply to strengthen an alliance and grow the kingdom for our family.
Never mind the fact that I live half a life. Never mind the fact that I’ll never
again see the moon shining overhead or lie on my back and look up at the
night sky.
The curse that was supposed to end when I found my soulmate will last
forever. Everyone else gets twenty-four hours in a day. But I’ll spend the
rest of my life living with twelve, and my own father sealed my fate.
“I won’t do it, Papa! I won’t!”
You will,” he orders, cold authority ringing in his voice, “or so help me,
you’ll spend your days locked in the tower.”
I rear back in shock. He’d lock me in the tower? Imprison me? Simply
because I don’t want to marry a man I’ve never met and don’t love?
He’s a monster.
“Fine.” I lift my chin, battling back the urge to cry. “If that’s your will,
Father.”
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