Resist (The Harvest Saga Book 2) by Casey L. Bond Read Free Book Online Page A

Cole and Marian Teegan. The Greater city is providing a banquet feast this evening and will broadcast the wedding for you all to see. Report to the village square at sundown. But be prepared to move after the celebration. You won’t be returning here.”
    Barely audible, I muttered, “No, I won’t.”
    Ardis ticked his head at me, grabbed a biscuit and a few strips of bacon and nodded for Gray to do the same. Gray complied, taking the last of the food, before they both stepped into the cold winter air.
    I closed the door and sank back against it. I had to move. Crew was getting married today and I would have to watch. I had the day off of work. I wasn’t sure if I’d survive any of it, let alone all of it.
    I finished washing the pans and dried them. Kyan would need breakfast and I needed to fix more biscuits. We didn’t have any more bacon though. I wanted to kick Gray for taking the last of it, but I know he had to keep up the façade. Just because I understood, doesn’t mean my foot didn’t flinch.
    I was mixing the biscuit dough when Ky came in the door smiling. He dusted a few snowflakes out of his hair. It had grown longer and was curling around his ears and at the nape of his neck.
    I smiled. “You’re happy this morning.”
    “I usually don’t get to see you.”
    Snorting, I said, “Tell that to Ardis. He thinks we spend way too much time together. He’s ready to fix that, too.”
    He shrugged his coat off and hung it on the back of the kitchen chair. Dusting the tiny snowflakes from his hair, he asked, “What do you mean? When did you see Ardis?”
    “You just missed him. He and Gray took your breakfast. I’m making you more biscuits, but they took all the bacon we had. I’m sorry.”
    He glanced around the kitchen. “What’d he say?”
    “He said I can’t stay here anymore. I’m supposed to pack my bags and be ready to move after the ceremony tonight.”
    “You know about that?”
    “About the grand celebration? Oh, yeah. He made sure to tell me all about the great wedding banquet.”
    I stirred harder and then added more flour to the dough so that I could roll it out and cut out biscuits with a glass. Lulu had some metal thing with a wooden handle to cut round biscuits with, but that was gone along with all of our things. Who knew what the guards did with our stuff.
    “Where are you supposed to go?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Tell me everything.”
    So I did. I told him that Ardis had implied that we were being improper by living together, how I needed to pack and had all day to do it, courtesy of the generous King of Olympus, who would also be providing dinner and entertainment in the form of Crew marrying some other girl. I told him how I would be taken to live somewhere else after the celebration tonight.
    What I didn’t tell him was that it was all breaking my heart. I didn’t want to see Crew marry someone else. I didn’t want all day free to think about it. I didn’t want to leave Kyan and move somewhere else. And that my mind was reeling. Perhaps I wouldn’t be moving after all.
    “We’re going to be on television, too. Did Ardis mention that?”
    “No.”
    “They are going to broadcast how happy the villages are for the new union. They want to pacify the Greaters in all of the cities.”
    “We’re going to be recorded? Live?”
    “Yep.” Kyan nodded and sat down heavily in a chair.
    I arranged the biscuits and placed them over the fire. “You need a haircut.”
    Ky grinned. “Yeah. I’m getting shaggy over here. My beautician took a leave of absence.”
    I smiled. “She’s back, so get your hind end in a chair, Mister. We can’t have you looking shaggy for all the Greaters, now can we?”
    Rummaging around a small wooden box, I found the razor and scissors. Ky had listened and was sitting in one of the kitchen chairs, a small towel pulled around his neck. “We can do this on the porch if you’d rather. It’s gonna make a mess.”
    I shrugged. “I’ve got