All Chapters of Fall For The Hunter’s Daughter: Chapter 161 - Chapter 167

~~AURELIA~~ “What do you want?” I don’t even look as Marco enters my cage of a room with a tray of food. He comes in the way the guards always do, with the soft, habitual footfall of people who have been instructed to move like they belong in the same room as monsters and not make it obvious. He w

I come back from the memory to find sunlight in my eyes and orange juice dried on the carpet like the outline of a wound. My hands are trembling now for reasons I cannot name. The house clock in the hall ticks the way a heart does when it is being measured. There are noises behind the walls, small h

The dinner goes on without ceremony. I wear a dress that fits like a promise and is less comfortable than anything else I own. The woman who dresses me fusses at the strap and at the hem with an intimacy that is practiced, like a ritual done daily for decades. The room where dinner is served is a pl

“You are an interesting woman,” he says finally, as though he has been collecting sentiments about me like curiosities. “I am not for your amusement,” I say. “Amusement is a generous way of putting it.” He turns his face to me and finally, which is nothing like mercy, he kisses me. It is a small t