Fate Be Changed by Farrah Rochon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Farrah Rochon
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Romance
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Merida
Three months later
Merida’s heart beat wildly as she marched behind her mother. She ignored
the stares of the people who had just witnessed the most brazen act of
defiance Merida had ever dared perform against her parents. When she hid
the bow and arrows on the dais with the intention of shooting for her own
hand at this year’s Highland Games, she had known that it would enrage her
mother.
She did not care.
Nor did she care what the people of their kingdom who were gawking at
her with such astonishment thought about her. They knew nothing of the
pressure she felt—the weight of the responsibilities she carried as the
daughter of the king. They could attend these games without worrying that
their freedom hung in the balance.
Merida kept her head held high, never wavering throughout the journey
across the grounds and into the castle and finally into the sitting room. Once
they reached their final destination, her mother slammed the door and
lashed out.
“I’ve just about had enough of you!” her mother hissed.
“You’re the one that forced me—”
The queen pointed at the door. “You embarrassed them. You
embarrassed me! I told you before that this marriage is your fate! It is your
responsibility to this kingdom!”
“But that is unfair! It is not my fault I was born into this family. Why
must I suffer the consequences for something I never asked for?”
Back and forth they went, talking over each other, each trying to get her
point across.
“I will not be forced to marry!” Merida yelled.
She drew a claymore from the display stand, not because she thought
she needed the long sword for protection, but because she felt more at peace
with its heavy weight in her hand. Her mother had never understood her.
She wanted Merida to be like her, a prim and proper royal lady. But Merida
had never felt drawn to that life. She wanted to be free.
She relished the feel of the wind in her hair as she raced her horse
across the glen. Delighted in the exhilaration of hitting a target from fifty
paces away with her bow and arrow, or tumbling in the dirt with her three
brothers.
She was her father’s fierce lass, not her mother’s proper princess.
Years of pent-up frustration and resentment poured forth from Merida’s
mouth. She knew she should stop. She knew her mother deserved her
respect, not the venom she was now unleashing on her.
But she could not help it. She’d held in her feelings for too long, and
look what it had led to: her mother believing that she could marry Merida
off to some bumbling stranger just because he shot an arrow at a target. Was
that all she was worth to her parents?
She would not stand for it.
“You’re acting like a child,” her mother said.
“And you are a beast!” Merida returned. She marched over to the
tapestry her mother had been working on for years and poked at it with her
claymore.
“Merida!” Her mother gasped when Merida twisted the sword’s tip into
the fabric. “No! Stop that!”
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