All Chapters of The Mate Who KIlled Her Family: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Chapter 1 ELENA The first thing I felt was the burning.It started in my left wrist, hot and sharp, like someone had pressed a coal against my skin and held it there. I groaned and tried to pull my arm to my chest, but my body was heavy. My head felt full of smjoke.Smoke.I opened my eyes.The ceiling above me was made of dark wood beams. Not the low, cracked ceiling of my bedroom at home. This one was high and smooth, and a small iron lamp hung from it on a chain. Gray morning light came in from somewhere to my right.I was lying in a bed. A big bed. The sheets were soft and white and smelled like pine ansd cedar and something else I couldn't name. Something warm. Something that made my stomach twist.This was not my bed.I sat up too fast. The room spun, and I grabbed the blanket to stop myself from falling back. My heart was pounding. I looked down at myself. I was wearing a long cotton shirt that wasn't mine. It was too big and hung off one shoulder. My legs were bare under the

Chapter 3KADEShe didn't believe me.I saw it in her eyes the second the words left my mouth. First the shock. Then the anger rising up behind it, hot and fast, like a fire catching dry grass."Liar," she whispered.I let go of her wrists. She stumbled back from me and held her bleeding arm against her chest. Her dark hair was wild around her face. Her cheeks were wet. She was shaking so hard I could hear her teeth click.And she looked at me like I was the worst thing she had ever seen.Maybe I was."Hilda will clean that cut," I said. "Eat something. Rest.""I don't want anything from you.""I know."I picked up the little fruit knife from the floor, because I wasn't a fool, and I walked to the door. My arm stung. So did hers. I could feel it, a faint echo of her pain sitting under my own, like a second heartbeat. That was new. Two days, and I still wasn't used to it.At the door, I stopped."The farther I go, the more it will hurt you," I said without turning around. "I'll stay cl