Read Fourth Debt (Indebted #5)(32) online free by Pepper Winters
Author: Pepper Winters
“No, I do not repent!”
Cut came toward me. His face was covered by an executioner’s black mask. In his hands rested a heavy gleaming axe, polished and sharpened and waiting to sever my neck.
Bending toward me, he kissed my cheek. “Too late. You’re already dead.”
“No!”
“Oh, yes.” Daniel chuckled. Shoving me forward, the guillotine grew from simple bascule and basket into something horrendous. “Kneel.”
I crashed to my knees, sobs suffocating me. “Don’t. Please, don’t. Don’t!”
No one listened.
Bonnie pressed my shoulders, forcing me to lean over the lunette and stare at the woven basket below. The same basket into which my head would roll.
“No! No! Stop! Don’t do this!”
“Goodbye, Nila Weaver.”
The axe swung up. The sun kissed its blade.
It came slicing down.
A bell woke me.
A tiny tinkle in the heavy swaddling of darkness. My heartbeat clashed with cymbals, and my hands swept up my throat. “No…” The diamonds still imprisoned me. My neck was still intact.
“Oh, thank God.”
I’m still alive.
Only a dream…
Or was it a premonition?
I coughed, chasing that question away.
My fever had brought many hallucinations over the past day or two: images of Jethro walking into my room. Laughter from Kestrel as he taught me how to jump on Moth. Impossible things. Desperately wanted things.
And also dread and dismay. The torturing didn’t stop when Cut had had his fun…my mind continued to crucify me when I was alone.
The bell came again.
I know that sound…but from where.
I was tired and sore. I didn’t...
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