Dance Of Nothing – Tara Grayce

No, instead of the perfectly bland folk tale, this particular tale was of the more romantic variety. Nothing lurid, but definitely not something she was comfortable reading alongside Benedict. She knew—she knew—it had been a bad idea to trust Benedict with bringing the books to the reading. But he’d insisted, and she’d caved despite that niggling in her stomach, and now here they were.

“What is this?” she hissed through her stiff smile and tapped the book’s cover. “This isn’t the book we agreed on.” Benedict smirked, the expression glinting in his deep blue eyes. “But this one is better. The one we picked was boring.” Boring was good. Boring didn’t have her spouting romantic lines while gazing into those too blue eyes and too handsome face. “We wouldn’t want to disappoint the audience.” Benedict leaned closer to her, his breath a whisper against her hair. “They’re getting restless.”

Indeed, a few shouts and jeers were hurled at them from the crowd. If they didn’t get on with it, then the heckling wasn’t the only thing they’d hurl. Rotten fruit could be next. “I’ll get you for this.” Beatrice gritted her teeth and glared at him, even as she tried to keep a pleasant smile in place for the audience’s benefit.

His teasing grin remained in place as he flipped his copy open. “I’ve marked the page where we’ll start.” So that was how it was going to be. Fine. Two could play this game. She’d go along with him for now and read this book. But he’d better watch out.

He’d get what was coming to him. After all, she had years of practice with this war. Beatrice snapped open her book to the marked page, the words blurring with her rage. She had to blink several times to bring the lines into focus. Benedict read first, his voice ringing with confidence over the crowd. “Lethario strode toward her, his blade bloody, his skin glowing with the luminescent sheen of battle.”

How Benedict managed to read that with a straight face, Beatrice didn’t know. She barely kept herself from rolling her eyes. “He swept up his love, the ethereal Eudoria, and held her in his tender embrace.” Benedict stepped closer, crowding her. At least he wasn’t so presumptuous as to put an arm around her. “As he held her so tenderly and sweetly, he whispered in her ear, ‘The battle is done. My duty to my king is fulfilled.

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To God, my King and Father. Soli Deo Gloria OceanofPDF.com Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Epilogue Don’t Miss the Next Adventure!

Acknowledgments OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com B Chapter One enedict’s legs sprawled out before him in the dirt as he leaned his back against the wall of his cell. He remained perfectly still to avoid rattling the shackles on his wrists and ankles as he watched the rat slowly peeking its head through the hole beneath the door. A real rat? Or another illusion? There was no way of knowing in this place. Even if the rat ran up to him and bit him, that too could be an illusion gripping his mind and making him think he was in pain.

As a member of a fae court—the son of a high-ranking noble, no less—Benedict had experienced a few glamours and illusions in his day. His mother had a glamour necklace that smoothed away her wrinkles while his father hid his gray hair. Yet Benedict had never experienced illusions to this level. The usual, relatively harmless glamours only fooled the eyes. They didn’t mess with the mind. They didn’t fool one into feeling pain or hunger or cold.

But he wasn’t in the Fae Realm that was bound by the Laws of Bindings. No, this place existed somewhere in the Realm of Monsters, or so he’d guessed.

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