To Wed an Obsidian Villain (BOUND BY FLAME) by Vasilisa Drake EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Vasilisa Drake
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LENORA TASHE HAD NEVER before regretted not having tumbled in the
sheets, half-drunk after a harvest celebration with some farmer’s son.
Not until it meant that the village decided her intact maidenhood made
her a perfect sacrifice for the dragon tyrant.
“Come on, Nora, don’t be mad at them,” one of said farmer’s sons
whined from the horse trotting beside her. “You know they didn’t have a
choice.”
Nora kept her gaze straight ahead. Her hands were bound to stop her from
fleeing. It was obvious she was the victim of this arrangement, and she was
under no obligation to absolve Garth of his guilt.
“Do you really want to go there mad?” he continued, his nasal voice
grating on her.
“‘Go there’?” Nora repeated before she could stop herself, her temper
fraying. “By there, perchance you mean into the maw of that great beast?”
“Someone had to,” Garth protested. No doubt the boy was unused to
people being angry with him. He passed for good looking in their village,
with long blonde curls and blue eyes that twinkled when he tried to flirt,
skin that was tan from honest labor, but not so tan that you couldn’t see the
blush on his cheeks. He did, however, possess the last attractive quality a
man could have in Nora’s view: he had no problem selling her off to a
dragon.
“Someone? It could’ve been some sheep the way it had been the past fifty
years!”
Every year the dragon demanded his due: clothing, livestock, precious
jewels, piles of gold. The village of Mossley had nothing more to offer than
a paltry amount of animals each year, but even that offering was almost
prohibitively expensive. A dragon might devour a dozen animals in one
sitting, if the rumors were true. But that same livestock kept the village
alive through hard seasons.
The life of one girl? Well, it was worth less than the half-dozen sheep she
took the place of.
“You know what Bess said. It had to be someone pure, someone to
appease the beast. You’re our best hope, Nora. You should be proud to serve
the village this way.”
If she heard the word pure again, she might very well use her bound
hands to lean over and strangle the man escorting her. She had considered it
more than once on their journey.
But the truth of the matter was, even if she left, she had nowhere to go.
She had lived in Mossley her whole life, and they had voted to send her off
based on the ramblings of a madwoman.
Her own stepmother had been the first to put her up, boasting Nora’s
untouched maidenhood. Who knew having more of an interest in books
than village boys would be a death sentence?
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