Lies That Bleed (THE EMBER WAR #1) by Leia Stone EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Leia Stone
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My governess knocked on the open door to my room and I peered up
at her, picking at my nails as nerves ate a hole into my stomach.
As the emperor’s eldest daughter, I had trained for this day since
I was four years old. I normally had guts of steel. I couldn’t remember the
last time I’d cried or gotten upset, but today wasn’t just a regular day.
Today was the Lottery, a drawing in which I knew my name was already
chosen—as was my right as the emperor’s daughter at the age of nineteen.
“I’m ready,” I told Elaine, but my voice cracked, revealing my
weakness.
She stepped into the room, a frown pulling at her mulberry-colored lips.
Her russet brown hair was the same color as Vespa, her fox creature that
stood beside her, mirroring her movements as she crossed the carpet.
“Claiming a creature of great strength and power is what is expected of
you so that you can rule the empire.” She appraised me, looking over my
Fleet-issued fatigues, likely making sure everything was tucked in properly.
Today I represented my entire family, and if one boot lace was untied it
would be a stain on the Everhart name. Even Vespa cocked his head to the
side, as if checking me over one last time, and I couldn’t help but stare at
his bright pink ember marks. They ran the length of his back in three jagged
lines, glowing like they contained fire. Normally a fox would be seen as a
more timid creature but not Vespa. He was twice the normal size of your
average fox and had sharpened claws and huge fanged teeth.
I nodded and stood. “Yes, ma’am.” I assumed a military position, back
straight, hands held behind me, fingers overlapping. Elaine served eight
years in my father’s Imperial Fleet before she left to become our governess.
In those eight years, she achieved the rank of first lieutenant. My father
wasn’t going to hire just anyone to raise his daughters. No. He needed
someone who knew how to kill a man with their bare hands.
Elaine walked over to me with Vespa trailing right beside her, and I took
in my governess for what might be the last time. Elaine always wore her
hair in a tight bun at the nape of her neck. She told me when I was younger
that it was because long hair left untied could be used against her. I didn’t
understand what she meant until she grabbed my long black braid in a
sparring session and slammed my face to the floor with it. I never sparred
with my hair in a braid or ponytail again, always a bun.
Elaine had been with me all of my nineteen years. Once a spritely
young twenty-eight-year-old, she was now pushing fifty, and yet was every
bit a badass as the young warriors in the Imperial Fleet.
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