His Broken Duchess by Hazel Linwood EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Hazel Linwood
- Language: English
- Genre: Historical Romance
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Sophia swayed her arms around, desperate to find an opening. She was
sinking deeper into the water, barely keeping her head afloat. Her legs
kicked into action as she tried to propel herself forward, but something
was pulling her down. The water was too dark, and her creamy white skin
was covered in goosebumps.
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“Someone… help…me…” she managed to gasp, the words barely
managing to leave her throat. Her head was under water now, and all her
kicking was in vain.
Sophia knew that she was going into the darkness…
And then, as though dawn had just broken after a long night of darkness, a
hand grabbed her before she could sink to the bottom. She was being pulled
out of the water by a pair of strong hands. They were warm against her own
skin which had turned icy cold.
“You are safe now,” the voice said to her, pulling her to the shore. She
squinted her eyes at the figure, trying helplessly to make out who it was, but
only the silhouette was visible to her. She reached out, trying to grasp the
shape, but it began to slip away from reach… further and further…
Sophia White sat up in her bed, gasping for air as she clutched her pillow in
hopes for something to ground her back to into reality. Beads of sweat had
formed on her forehead, and her heart was beating frantically against her
chest.
It took her a few moments to calm herself down. Outside her window, the
morning sun was already beginning to peak in. The darkness of night had
subsided and so had all the horrors that it brought along with it.
“It was only a dream,” she reminded herself as she slowly hoisted herself
out of bed. Her hands were still shaking in the aftermath of her nightmare.
At three and twenty years of age, Sophia White was no stranger to bad
dreams. They were a regular visitor in her sleep — so much so that she
found herself anticipating their arrival every time she drifted off to sleep
each night. They were recurring, always featuring her drowning in water.
Sometimes she made it out alive, other times she was not as lucky.
But despite their recurrence, they never failed to leave their impact on
Sophia, and she’d be left in a frantic state each time. With shaking hands,
Sophia went to open the curtains on her window and soak up the sunlight
pouring in through it.
“Sunshine and a meal prepared out of love,” her mother used to always tell
her when she was a child. “They have the power to solve almost any
problem.”
The warmth of the sunlight served as a feeble but available replacement for
the warmth that Sophia sought whenever she woke up from a bad dream,
still in a vulnerable state. She let herself bathe in it for a few more moments
and then went to sit at her desk.
Sophia began to scribble away inside a small black notebook that looked as
though it had seen better days with its torn edges and crumbled papers. She
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