Reckless (THE POWERLESS TRILOGY #2) by Lauren Roberts EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lauren Roberts
- Language: English
- Genre: Fantasy
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Paedyn
My blood is only useful if it can manage to stay inside my body.
My mind is only useful if it can manage to not get lost.
My heart is only useful if it can manage to not get broken.
Well, it seems I’ve become utterly useless, then.
My eyes flick over the floorboards beneath my feet, wandering over the worn
wood. The mere sight of the familiar floor floods me with memories, and I fight
to blink away the fleeting images of small feet atop big booted ones as they
stepped in time to a familiar melody. I shake my head, trying to shake the
memory from it despite desperately wishing I could dwell in the past, seeing that
my present isn’t the most pleasant at the moment.
… sixteen, seventeen, eighteen—
I smile, ignoring the pain that pinches my skin.
Found you.
My stride is unsteady and stiff, sore muscles straining with each step toward
the seemingly normal floorboard. I drop to my knees, biting my tongue against
the pain, and claw at the wood with crimson-stained fingers I struggle to ignore.
The floor seems to be just as stubborn as I am, refusing to budge. I would
have admired its resilience if it weren’t a damn piece of wood.
I don’t have time for this. I need to get out of here.
A frustrated sound tears from my throat before I blink at the board, blurting,
“I could have sworn you were the secret compartment. Are you not the
nineteenth floorboard from the door?”
I’m staring daggers at the wood before a hysterical laugh slips past my lips,
and I tip my head back to shake it at the ceiling. “Plagues, now I’m talking to the
floor,” I mutter, further proof that I’m losing my mind.
Although, it’s not as if I have anyone else to talk to.
It’s been three days since I stumbled back to my childhood home, haunted
and half-dead. And yet, both my mind and body are far from healed.
I may have dodged death with each swipe of the king’s sword, but he still
managed to kill a part of me that day after the final Trial. His words cut deeper
than his blade ever could, slicing me with slivers of truths as he toyed with me,
taunted me, told me of my father’s death with a smile tugging at his lips.
“Don’t you want to know who it was that killed your father?”
A shiver snakes down my spine while the king’s cold voice echoes through my
skull.
“Let’s just say that your first encounter with a prince wasn’t when you saved Kai
in the alley.’”
If betrayal was a weapon, he bestowed it upon me that day, driving the blunt
blade through my broken heart. I blow out a shaky breath, pushing away
thoughts of the boy with gray eyes as piercing as the sword I watched him drive
through my father’s chest so many years ago.
Staggering to my feet, I shift my weight over the surrounding floorboards,
listening for an indicating creak while mindlessly spinning the silver ring on my
thumb.
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