All Chapters of Cursed Luna, Rejected Mate : Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

SeleneMy fingers were raw from scraping grease off the pewter plates. I used the rough hemp rag, and my nail beds flaked into tiny white scales against the grainy wood of the wash tub. In the kitchen of the Green Gable, the smell of burned cabbage and wet timber mingled with the sour tang of second-rate ale that the drivers drained from their leather jacks after the afternoon service.Every time a gust of wind sneaked in through the heavy oak door in the hall, the wall-mounted candles, wick coated in a sheen of soot, flamed with the force of a miniature bellows. I had a dull throb right behind my eyes, a pressure that made the low grease lamps near the larder shimmer until it was hard to look. I couldn’t recall the name of the road that had brought me into this valley three months before.The thought slipped from my head like wet boots in mud. A space was vacant in the place where yesterday belonged, a foggy greyness like that which rose off the river flats on cold mornings. My thumb