Page 25 of Winter's Scorching Kisses
“You animals!” She thrashed around, attempting to strike him with one of her slippered feet, but he just scooted out of range. “Damn you! Do you have no decency?”
Her sister had been used by one of them. Her heart kept breaking the longer this conversation continued, and she couldn’t shake the image of Jasmine being dragged under an ice giant and…
Her poor sister! The trauma. Would her sister ever be able to recover from such a heinous experience? She feared the answer would be a no.
“She would’ve traveled down here to tell you herself, but she is in no condition to ride.” He sighed. “I wish she had. She may have done a better job at convincing you she was happy than I am.”
“That…” Adorra trailed off. She didn’t want to give too much away about what she believed. This was her moment to make a decision. She could either wait it out and see if her sister was alive, or she could keep telling him she didn’t believe him and remain tied up.
Once he brought her to Jasmine, she would get Jasmine back to human civilization. Her sister was either brainwashed or too scared to refuse what the ice giants demanded of her. It had to be what was happening.
“How do I know any of this is true?” She studied him as he just watched her in silence. Those obsidian eyes disturbed her so much. She wasn’t sure how anyone could read anything in them when they were just dark pits. “You could’ve gathered this information before slaughtering my sister.”
“If we slaughtered her like you say, then why would we bother with this pretense with you?” He arched a brow. “If all we wanted to do was kill you, I could’ve done it back in your room.” He reasoned.
Adorra opened her mouth, and then snapped it shut when she realized it was true. It wasn’t like he couldn’t kill her. It would’ve been extremely easy. Perhaps she’d dismissed her guards prematurely.
“It has to be a twisted lie.”
He shrugged unconcerned. “Believe me or not, but I have been charged with bringing you back to the ice giant castle, and that is exactly what I will do.”
He stood up, and she craned her head back. She blicked a couple of times as she took in his height. It amazed her that he didn’t hit his head on the top of the tent. He was taller than most of the men she knew. Without a single word, he turned and left the tent.
Adorra didn’t care that he’d just left her tied with her hands behind her back. She needed some time to process all that he’d told her. She stared at the flap of the tent as it waved at her from the momentum of the ice giant that’d left.
Her sister was alive and living with the ice giants, which would never have even crossed her mind. It was so bizarre. Even now, she had a hard time believing it, even with it coming straight from the giant’s mouth.
So, Keir hadn’t been involved? Her brow furled as she shook her head. Maybe she had given him a bad name for no reason. She wasn’t even sure what to believe right now. Confusion rolled through her like a wave, battering her until she was senseless.
But Adorra knew her sister wouldn’t just run off and marry an ice giant. There was more to this story than she was being told and it irked her. She wanted the full story. Only problem was that she figured the ice giant might not give it to her straight. She got the feeling he was hiding the juicy bits from her.
Maybe she should wait and see.
But she wasn’t keen on the idea of going all the way to their castle, which she knew was hidden deep in the snowy mountains, but if her sister was alive and up there… well, then she had to go. She couldn’t just turn tail until she had more answers.
