Darkest Depths by Carmen Black EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Carmen Black
- Language: English
- Genre: Fantasy & Futuristic Romance
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I push the seaweed curtain to the side, peeking out from my place hidden
in the shadows to scrutinize the grand hall filled with guests. Iridescent
jellyfish hover above the long golden tables, casting blue, purple, and red
hues over the mermen and women scattered throughout the hall. Platters
filled with shells and algae float around and my stomach grumbles
earnestly, reminding me I haven’t yet eaten. A choir of six mermaids swim
past, their high-pitched voices echoing throughout the hall over the chatter.
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My gaze slides to King Proteus, reclining on his coral throne across from
us, trident in hand. He strokes his long white beard as he listens to the rising
tunes, his face blank of emotion as if his mind is elsewhere. His long white
hair floats around him, nearly covering the crown made of pink coral on the
top of his head. He’s thousands of years old, yet, despite his age, he holds
his trident with a muscled forearm. Even from this distance, I can see the
veins popping in his extravagant arms. There’s not a pinch of fat on his
rippling chest and stomach. He’s the strongest swimmer of us all. The most
violent warrior among our kind. No one would dare fight the sea king. At
I
least not while he wields the trident, the most powerful weapon in our
kingdom, Thaelussa.
King Proteus, my father, was bestowed the trident from the gods—a
magnific present for a magnificent king. Yet, even with the trident’s power,
there is one thing my father cannot destroy. Well, I suppose ‘thing’ is the
wrong word to describe the humans living above us, ruining our homes with
the rubbish they throw into our water, destroying Thaelussa with their
dilapidated ships sinking to the bottom, and killing the creatures we wish to
protect.
My mother was one of their victims—something my father never ceases
to remind me of.
“Aria,” my eldest sister, Mira, whispers harshly to me. She taps my
shoulder lightly, drawing my attention away from our father. “Are you
well?”
I drop the curtain and turn to her, my eyes meeting gold, the same eyes
my sisters and I inherited from our late mother. “Yes,” I say, ignoring the
quickening of my heart as the soft tunes of the choir dissipate. Once the
applause ends, my sisters and I will be called upon to perform. There are
many things I’m good at—swimming, fighting, killing, and even singing.
However, singing in front of hundreds of judging merpeople is not one of
them.
Selena chuckles bitterly, and I narrow my eyes on her, watching as she
runs her long claws through her periwinkle hair. “Nervous, Sister?” she asks
haughtily, flicking her hair over her shoulder as she turns her back to me.
“Indeed, it would be a shame if you humiliated yourself this day.”
Mira rolls her eyes. “Enough, Selena.”
“It is your eighteenth birthday, after all,” Selena shrugs. “What would
you do, dear sister, if everyone brought up your humility every year on the
anniversary of your birth?” Selena glances over her shoulder, smiling
bitterly at me. Knowing her, she would be the one to remind everyone year
after year.
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