Stolen Crown (RECKLESS ROYALS #5) by Abby Knox EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Abby Knox
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Callum
The wolf tracks are getting too close to the castle.
My father will need help to relocate it to a part of the kingdom with a
denser deer population.
I squint at the tracks in the mud, and suddenly I see it—not one set but
two smaller sets behind a larger one. A mother and her pups.
The tracks lead deeper into the dense woods and down into the ravine. I
wonder if it’d be possible to tag them and then—
“What are you doing?”
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The voice rips me from my concentration. I whirl around, and the girl
appears as a loud, vibrant specter, dressed in hues of orange and pink that
don’t belong anywhere near a man trying to subtly, carefully, find a
predator’s den. An almost-man, anyway.
There goes my plan for the day.
“I’m tracking wolves. You should go.”
She looks familiar—about my age of 11, though I’ve never seen her
before.
“Why? I’m not scared.”
She should be, dressed in fine shoes and a fancy dress that reminds me
of springtime and the first flowers. Her blonde hair is braided into a crown
around the top of her head. She stands on the boardwalk that the royals use
for their “outdoorsy” photo ops.
“Are you a palace visitor, or are you here for Easter photos and have
lost your way?” I ask because this is a frequent occurrence when the
weather improves.
“Neither. I live here,” she says blankly.
“That’s a lie. I’ve never seen you before.”
A mischievous smile pulls at her lips. “That’s because I’ve been at
boarding school since I was seven. But now everyone’s had the final straw
with me, so this is my life now. But I have to say I don’t mind the idea of
hiding out in the woods with a new friend, er…”
“Callum.”
She smiles. “Flora.”
“That’s not true. That’s the princess’s name.”
Beaming at me, she laughs. “Is it? What a coincidence?”
Truly, she’s playing a joke on me. If this were the princess, she would
not be out here unaccompanied.
“Won’t your nanny be looking for you?”
She laughs. “I do what I want.”
The girl has that look about her, that she’s a force to be reckoned with.
But she can’t fool me—she has hurt in her eyes.
It’s in my nature to notice things. As gamekeeper for the palace, my
father counts every predator, every deer that passes through these woods.
Not so much as a northern finch escapes his notice. It’s the people we have
trouble with. But this girl, she wears her feelings on the outside.
I like her.
“Fine. You can stay and help me if you don’t mind getting those shoes
muddy.”
“Hmm,” says the girl, looking down forlornly at her shoes as if already
regretting ruining them before she’s even begun. “Why are you tracking
wolves anyway?”
“Because I’m going to be the gamekeeper one day.”
“Why do you want to find them though?”
“We count them,” I say, resting my fists at my waist to indicate that I’m
a very important, busy man.
“Yes, but why?”
This girl and her questions will drive away every wolf, bear, and badger
within ten kilometers.
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