The Rose Bargain

The Rose Bargain

Author: Sasha Peyton Smith Listening Length: 10h 30m

London, 1848—For four hundred years, England has been under the control of an immortal fae queen who tricked her way onto the throne. To maintain an illusion of benevolence, Queen Mor grants each of her subjects one opportunity to bargain for their deepest desire. As Ivy Benton prepares to make her debut, she knows th...

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The blood from my hand seeps into the edges of the scroll and dribbles down the spindly legs of the table.

I turn to walk back to my mother, but Bram bounds down the steps of the dais after me.

He reaches into his breast pocket and pulls out a midnight-blue silk handkerchief. Swiftly, he encircles my wrist with his cool fingers and tugs me closer to him. I let out a little gasp of surprise.

He wraps the fabric tightly around the wound and finishes with a knot. Then he presses his middle and pointer finger over the fabric right in the middle of my palm, where it throbs the worst. There’s a sudden rush of heat, then the pain stops.