Anastasia (The Bolton Series Book 1) by Heaven Lyanne Flores Read Free Book Online Page B

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                  “I’m still not sure I understand everything,” I whispered looking into the fire. Small pops came from the wood as it burned.
    “Maybe you will get the answers you want when we arrive. I am sure the King would want you to know as much as possible.” He shoved a spoonful of the canned stew into his mouth.
    “The King? Where are we going exactly?”
    “A village as I said. You will be staying in what used to be a palace of the royal family. They have not inhabited it for twenty years.”
    “Why am I to stay there?”
    “It is safe. That is all I can say on the matter.”
    I simply nodded and finished my dinner. Cabel told me to get some sleep and he would keep watch. I protested of course, I did not want some man I didn’t know looking over me while I slept. That position is the most vulnerable a person could be. However, my eyes could barely stay open so I quickly agreed and lay down next to my horse. Her steady breathing lulled me to sleep.
    When I woke, the bright purple sky greeted me. Cabel already had everything packed and the horses saddled. He handed me some bread for breakfast before we left. We reached the village in four hours.
    Small beaten down houses lined a winded down path of the outer village. I looked in shock at all the different creatures that came out to see us pass by. None of Simon’s lessons could have possibly prepared me for this.
    About a hundred of elves, fairies, goblins, centaurs and some I didn’t know surrounded us. Most of them smiled at us when we passed by and bowed their heads slightly. Others looked as if they would like nothing better than to see my head on a stick in their yards.
    A male centaur came out of the crowd and walked beside me and a female flanked the opposite side of Cabel as if they were escorting us. The man looked straight ahead making sure everyone was out of our way while the female seemed to be doing the same but her brown eyes would occasionally twitch to where I rode. I could tell that she was ordered to only escort us into town and nothing more.
    The farther we got into the village the more the shacks disappeared to be replaced with cabins much like my home. Different creatures appeared the closer we got to the center. These were the more human looking creatures so I could not really tell what they were. Maybe werewolves or even witches, it was hard to tell.
    The center of the village was one huge marketplace. Everyone had become silent as we walked though. Almost everyone bowed to us. It must have been because of Cabel. He had to be an important man.
    We rode on our horses until we reached the other end on the village. Before us stood the biggest building I had yet to see on Bolton. It stood three stories high was just as wide. It looked like something out of a fairy tale.
    Blue vines crawled their way up the walls nearly covering some of the windows. Each corner of what I assumed to be the palace had a small circler tower giving it a medieval look. Two heavy looking wooden doors marked the entrance to the magnificent building.
    The centaurs escorted our horses away, hopefully to a barn, while Cabel took me inside. I didn’t know what I was expecting but it was not what I saw. It was as if we were back on Earth. Modern day furniture decorated the living area we entered and continued into the dining room and kitchen. There were halls everywhere. I would definitely be getting lost going through some of those. 
    Off the kitchen in the back was a study. Bookcases lined two walls and I could not help but think that Simon would have loved this room. A dark wood desk lay in the middle with two gray chairs in front of it.
    “Please sit, Anastasia.” Cabel walked around the desk and sat on the huge black chair. I took off my bag and placed it at my feet. “I know there are questions you wish to ask but I must establish some ground rules first. One, you will not leave this building without your guard.”
    He could not be