Novel & Cerita Heartless Elsie Silver Read Online

The storm outside was nothing compared to the violence of the air inside Captain Elias Blackthorn’s cabin. Elara lay back on the heavy oak bed, her silver hair tangled across the dark sheets like spilled moonlight. Her chest rose and fell in jagged, desperate hitches, her thighs still vibrating from the onslaught she’d just endured. She felt raw, open, and utterly conquered.

He swept her into his arms and rushed away without looking back. The crowd's stares seared my skin. I forced myself upright, my knees trembling so violently I could hardly stand. … Back home, I headed straight for Ryan's study. I keyed in Olivia's birthday and heard the safe click open. I braced myself for whatever I might uncover. To my surprise, I felt nothing at all. Inside, there were no treasures, just a single document. I pulled it out. Even after everything that had happened, seeing the proof with my own eyes still made my chest tighten, as if an old wound had been torn open again.

We both sense that line getting tighter. “She’s coming,” I whisper. He nods. “Yeah. And when she does, it won’t be just for you.” I turn, really looking at him. “She wants what I won’t let myself become.” He meets my eyes, steady. “And what’s that?” I breathe in. “A crown with no heart.” The silver inside me stirs. It feels warm, solid—like it’s ready. Out there in the woods, something ancient is listening. And for once, it’s not moving. It’s just waiting.

Pushing all these thoughts away, he said, "We should go home. It's late. I wanted to finish some work while you slept, but here you are." Sitting on her knees, Elsie reached for a golden-covered book with a man in a butler uniform underneath a mask holding a knife on the cover. Waving the book at him, she interjected, "I could stay here. I still have fifty pages of Butler's Mysteries to read." A skeptical brow raised, he inquired, "You do know that the butlers are always the culprits, right?" "So? Who doesn't love a good cliché?" she winked mischievously, making his eyes gleam. They fell upon her heart-shaped lips.

Silver slid under the duvet with her. The air was full of tension, silence was making it worse. "What are you doing?" Elizabeth asked, worry written all over her face "Look at her," Silver peered down at her and placed the back of her hand against her cheek, ''Her skin is cold. Her lips are turning blue. We can't let her die. She's our friend." "I've talked to mom. The book is the only solution." Elizabeth said, flickering her gaze out of the window. The night was dark, with no star, no moon.

Rage flashed through Elaine so hot it drowned out the pain. She didn’t think. She moved. The world cracked. Silver light burst beneath her skin, so bright it swallowed the dark. Heat tore through her bones, twisting, remaking, pulling something buried to the surface. Elaine cried out as the force ripped through her body, and then the pain was gone. Where a girl had stood a second earlier, a silver wolf landed in the dirt. For one stunned heartbeat, the forest went silent. Even Elena froze. Elaine’s own breath came faster as she stared down at her paws, at the moonlight gleaming across silver fur.

"He thought you were a hero. And yet, here you are, acting as the muscle for a Silvercrest rogue. You are protecting the very monsters who…" "You dare not question me!" I shouted, taking a sharp step forward, the tip of my silver blade stopping just inches from his throat. "Do not question me, and do not change the topic! You sit there in your clean suit behind your screens, talking about ledgers and balances, but you don't know anything. You will never understand how love worked. You used a little boy’s grief to paint your own twisted masterpiece." Elias didn't flinch away from the blade. His expression instantly hardened, the mock amusement vanishing, replaced by a cold, venomous intensity

Silver murmured, everything confidently. “Take the guards with you,” I insisted in a broken voice. “Thank you. Please take care of yourself. However, I will try to see if I have something in my books first.” She gave me a sympathetic smile, but that’s what they were. Just an empty smile! They will never be able to mend what’s broken inside my chest now. After Silver left to read and possibly find anything in her stupid books in regards to the wailing brides stealing my mate’s body, I was left alone.

Future Hope looked at her younger self. “You don’t.” Hope frowned. “Then what do I do?” “Listen to it.” Elias suddenly gasped. Everyone turned. He fell to his knees. “Mama…” Hope rushed to him. “What happened?” Elias grabbed his head. “I can hear it.” Hope held him. “What is it saying?” Elias looked up. His eyes were beginning to turn silver. “It says…” He swallowed. “It says it doesn’t want to hurt me.” Hope froze. “What does it want?”

The silver energy disappeared. Just disappeared. No explosion. No struggle. Nothing. Elena stared. “How did you do that?” Elias looked at her. “The same way you will.” “I'm not like you.” “No.” He smiled. “You're better.” Elena felt uneasy. “Why?” “Because you were given something I never had.” “What?” “A heart that wasn't afraid to love.” Adrian looked at Elena. Elias noticed. “That's why he matters.” Adrian frowned. “What?” “You.”