A Wish So Deadly

A Wish So Deadly

Author: Marilize Loxton Listening Length: 10h 10m
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“Legends are never forged without a little ruin…” When Talia unwittingly steals cursed jewels from a powerful Soulreaper, she pays the ultimate price: the Soulreaper takes her sister’s soul. Desperate to save her sister, Talia strikes a deal. She will enter a deadly, magical tournament and if she survives, she will...

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Chapter Thirty-five

Madame Vera was right. The palace dungeons are a dreadful place.

My small cell is one of many in a cold, dark space that reverberates with the sounds of discomfort. Nasal drones, restless shuffles and the sporadic hack of a cough.

I ease against the coarse wall, feeling its chill seeping through my clothes and permeating my bones. A single sunbeam trickles through the barred window near the ceiling, but it provides only feeble warmth.

I can’t believe this is what my life has come to. Me, alone, wasting away in a dungeon while the High Council deliberates my fate.