Destiny Will Not Wait

By Kalisto Barques

Mayhem and intrigue have always followed little Felanise Lindquist. Only she doesn't know why. Her mother never told her why she was so different than the other girls her age...or who her father really was... just that he was... elven.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kalisto Barques
• Release date: Oct 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005214920

Kalisto Barques

I am published here on Smashwords, on Inkit, Free-ebooks, Mytopia, Overdrive, and all over the world. The mark of a good author isn't just how many books they write, or publish. It's all about how good what they publish is. If the readers can come back and read the author again. Even if it's a different book, then the author is doing something right. That is my goal, not cookie cutter stories, that are boring and pat. So please take a look at what I have.

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Destiny Will Not Wait

Kalisto Barques

©️Kalisto Barques 2020

Chapter 1~

A single bead of sweat slid through the grime dripping into the bloodshot cerulean eyes of the prisoner. The filthy thing had been chained upside down in the cage with its arms and legs spread wide for more than six hours above the pit of smoldering coals.

I will not pass out I will not pass out!

Rakshasa circled the crow's cage admiring his handiwork, watching the prisoner lazily track his movements with its gaze. What is your name? Who sent you? What is your purpose here?

Felani watched her captor, his voice coming from a great distance as the blood pounded in her head. Fighting to hold onto her consciousness, she kept her lips clamped shut. She knew he thought her a boy, because of her clothes and the apparent lack of her figure. Twisting against her painful bonds, she fought the urge to scream.

"Tell me who you are, boy and I will end this torment!'

Felani swore under her breath at her father and brothers for sending her on this foolish errand.

You must travel to the ancient kingdom beyond the forest. There you will meet with the king and barter yourself into marriage to secure the peace.

Her father had looked so grave. Her oldest brother had stared at her with a mixture of lust, pity, and disgust. She felt alone. I do nothing for your pleasure, swine! Take me to the King!

Rakshasa's eyes rounded when he heard a melodious feminine voice come from the young boy in his cage. You are quite bold for one so young!

Felani growled and twisted. The painful spikes of the iron cage stabbing into her tender back, making her scream with agony. "Damn you, Rakshasa, let me out of this cage and take