Devil’s Deal (JAGA AND THE DEVIL #1) by Layla Fae EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Layla Fae
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Sacrifice
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I’m running through the dusky forest. Tall ferns whip my face, but I have no
air to scream or even moan with pain. Every breath hurts, my lungs and
stomach burning with effort. I don’t know how long I’ve been running.
All I know is that I’ll never make it.
I grab the trunk of an oak to turn faster, veering left. The rough bark
scratches my palm, the salty sweat stinging. Please, I beg in my mind, but I
know no one will answer. The chasm of helplessness in my chest grows
bigger with every whoop of laughter behind me.
“Run, little devil! It will be over soon!”
I don’t dare look back. I know I stand no chance. They are older than me,
their long legs navigating the undergrowth with ease and confidence. They
cackle and howl like wolves. I’m terrified. My heart can’t beat any faster,
my body can’t grow any tenser.
A wild raspberry bush leaves gashes on my bare arm as I hurl past it. I
have no air left to hiss with pain.
“Run, run! Lead us to your beastly father!” Daga’s scream is raw with
rage and much closer than the others.
Panic slams into me. I try to speed up, but my legs are already blurs of
white in the dappled green. I’m twelve years old, fast and strong for my
age. But I can’t compete with a fourteen-year-old girl who eats to satiety
every day.
My breath wheezes out of me, as loud as the bellows in the smithy.
Daga’s father is the village smith. When my mother went to him because
her sickle broke, he gave her a price twice higher than normal. She paid in
silence, keeping her head low.
But that was a few moons ago. It’s autumn now. Late autumn that leaves
frost on the grass at night. It’s chilly today, but I don’t feel the cold, my
body heating up from exertion.
“I’ll get you, devil’s spawn!”
That’s Jaromir, Daga’s beau. He’s sixteen and the biggest of my three
chasers. He’s an apprentice at the smithy, and his parents own the largest
field by the village.
He could have caught me hours ago, but Jaromir likes to draw out the
pain. Last fall, he tied me up and lowered me into an old well hardly anyone
uses these days. I hung there from a rope, half-submerged and shaking from
the cold, until my mother found me in the evening.
He could have just thrown me in the river where the current is the
strongest, but then, I’d be dead in minutes.
And I don’t think he wanted to kill me back then. Just make me suffer.
“The devil can’t save you, witch!”
My chest burns so badly, I want to cough. Every breath is a struggle. I
know I’m doomed. Before, they only tormented me for fun. They called me
a witch back then, too, but it wasn’t for real. Not like it’s now.
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