Forever a Carp in the Current
Language: en
The day Silas Blackwood pulled me from Keelhaul Bay’s grimy fighting pit, I was in a thin top, laughing wildly. In my last life, I knew he had the wrong woman—Seraphina—but I seized the chance to escape. He swept me away, treating me like a treasure in his gilded cage. That ended when the real Seraphina’s death certificate arrived. I became the focus of all his hatred. “You lied. Because of you, Sera died out there. I’ll make you suffer everything she did, tenfold.” He threw me into a cellar of his own making, inventing new torments each night: blades testing my flesh, bone-deep cold,…