Crowned and Corrupted by Celeste King EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Celeste King
- Language: English
- Genre: Dark Fantasy Horror
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BREMI
Vhoig is so beautiful this time of year.
I turn at the sound of laughter, and my long hair floats behind me.
The sunlight dances off my platinum tresses as I turn to see Rina, my
friend.
She walks up to me, her eyes sparkling with happiness, and I lean down
to hug her.
“The gardens are so beautiful this time of year,” Rina says, and her
words echo almost exactly what I was thinking mere minutes ago.
“Well, your father is the head groundskeeper, so, of course, the gardens
are looking beautiful,” I tell her as we walk towards the house I grew up in.
Rina smiles unaffectedly. Her father is a talented zagfer who has always
managed to manipulate the gardens to reflect what my mother and father
want.
My parents aren’t gaudy or extravagant with their wealth, even though
they’re part of the royal family of Vhoig. Kral and Amelie Ishiraya. The
first dark elf and human pair, at least publicly.
I’m lucky, I know, to have grown up with such a loving family. Like
how my mother, instead of ordering Rina’s father to plant the most exotic
blooms, asks him to keep things simple so their resources can go to their
servants, their people.
But that still doesn’t change the life I grew up with. The pressure.
I swallow back the emotion building as I enter the living room on the
ground floor behind Rina, and we pass the enormous mirrored wall as we
walk towards the library.
I pause for a minute and listen to Rina’s chatter as she disappears into
the library, and I look at myself in the mirrored wall.
A young woman who I am not quite familiar with, but who I grew up
with, stares back at me.
A young woman with long, bright blonde hair and pale gray skin.
A young woman with bright blue eyes, and a tall, slender frame.
“I’m coming!” I call distractedly to Rina, who peers at me from around
the library door.
I wait until she disappears before I take a moment to get reacquainted
with myself.
It seems I grew up overnight. I mean, I knew I was growing up. I knew I
was becoming an adult.
But it happened so quickly. There was virtually no time between my
childhood and young adulthood.
Now, when I pass mirrors or reflective surfaces, I turn and look at
myself, and I expect to see a child, an adolescent.
Get used to it, I think to myself almost harshly.
And then, as I shoulder this new burden of age and adulthood, I go to
join Rina in the library.
Rina and I have been friends since we were both children. Luckily for
me, my parents did not insist on me spending all my time with other noble
children.
“Are you ready for today’s lesson?” Rina asks me excitedly, and I
cannot help but smile at her enthusiasm.
“I don’t know.” My voice is wry. “I think I’m still quite exhausted from
yesterday.”
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