A Fated Vow by Amanda Aggie EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Amanda Aggie
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ASMODEUS
I HAD TWO GOALS for today, to move back into the keep I grew up in
and maybe get a cat. That’s it. Yet, as I stare at the shithole I plan to call
home, neither of those things seem remotely possible.
Breathing in the musky forest air, I let the salty tang of the nearby ocean
soothe the rage burning through my veins. This place used to be
magnificent. It used to reach into the sky, adorned with gold and black
banners hanging from stone walls. But while I was trapped in the Realm of
Monsters, the keep was abandoned, and time wreaked havoc on its beauty.
Those same two-toned banners are now a muted, drab brown, the fringed
hems in tatters, consumed by the elements. Even the embroidered snake
twining around a rose in the center is hardly visible, nothing more than an
angular head, mouth open to reveal poison-tipped fangs.
It’s the Morningstar crest, the royal family of the Seven Realms. My true
last name still seems foreign to me, like some fragmented memory of a
previous life.
It’ll take more than a few layers of paint to restore Grim’s Keep back to
its former glory, but much like these crumpled remains, I’ve seen far too
much death and sacrificed enough for one lifetime. Moving back here is a
new beginning—a future I can mold and shape and escape into, assuming
the bones are still good.
Something cracks beneath my boot, and I pause, lifting just enough to see
the pieces of colored glass. It’s from the windows, though I’m not sure how
pieces of them made it this far away from the base of the keep. It’s like an
explosion sent them flying. Glancing at the grass and vines that nearly
smother the pathway, I find more fragments peeking out from the plant life.
It appears Mother Nature has claimed the estate as her own.
Every inch of this place is in ruins, and my heart aches at the sight. It’s
like a giant chewed it up, spat it out, and then crushed it underfoot in a fit of
rage, destroying most of the left wing. Grim’s Keep used to pulse with life
and magic. I don’t even want to know what condition the library is in. If
any of the ancient tomes are salvageable, I’ll be surprised.
I was the only one who cared enough to look after this estate, and it’s not
like I had any warning to ensure someone could pick up the torch in my
absence—or rather, my banishment. My departure was too sudden.
The lords of my father’s court revolted, demanding my death, and that his
hand be the one to deliver the blow.
Fortunately—or maybe unfortunately
for me—my mother had other plans. She lured me to the Realm of
Monsters before I could be caught or executed and didn’t hesitate to shove
me inside. It’s a prison, a place built to contain the immortal creatures
deemed too dangerous to live among the rest, a place not even the Devil
dare go. She trapped me there, and with tears in her eyes, my mother
begged me to survive.
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