StarNovelChapter 310
---- This child was cursed.
Thats why she had been drowning it in the well.
This baby...
was the offspring of an elemental man and a witch.
But according to the memories of this body | now inhabited, sbirths.
---- 188, ELECTRA DE LA CROIX SIGRID The scream lodged in my throat, my eyes nearly bulging out of their
sockets as my trembling hands lifted the poor creature, barely clinging to life.
Its pale skin was covered in horrible black markings, like cursed patterns crawling across its tiny frameeven its
face was tainted.
It didnt cry.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt| could feel its weak little heart faltering, barely beating.
Then, it opened its mismatched eyesone of each colorstaring upat the bitch who had been drowning it in the
well.
"My lady, is something wrong?" A voice behindmade my whole body seize up.
Twasnt alone.
Goddess, | had to play along, | had to becthis vile womanbecause if they foundout, | was dead.
"Nothing is wrong, Grimm.
I'll finish quickly, go prepare the carriage." Itis already ready." "Then go check it again, or are you deaf?!" |
snapped, channeling every ounce of contempt | could muster, praying the tremor in this unfamiliar voice would
go unnoticed.
When | heard his footsteps retreat, | turned awaystanding in the ---- middle of this strange forest, where all the
trees were black, twisted like the heart of this witch.
| walked fast, putting as much distance as possible betweenand that death well, scanning my surroundings.
No one was there.
So, | did the only thing I could think of to save this poor, dying baby.
| tore open the long wool coat draped over me, then my black blouse, tucking the infant against my bare chest,
desperately trying to infuse warmth into its rigid little body before sealing my coat shut around it.
"Hold on, baby.
For the Goddesss sake, hold on," | begged, moving deeper into the forest, searching for shelter, anything to keep
it safe.
| couldnt be seen carrying this childno one could know | had saved it, 1 found a massive tree, its trunk hollowed
out at the base.
With my free hand, | pushed aside the overgrown weeds, bracing myself in case swild animal had made its
hthere.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmBut the animals...
they didnt seem to chere.
| expanded my sensesstill struggling to adjust to this woman's magicbut it seemed safe enough.
| sat on the dead leaves, whispering a healing incantation, breathing life into the baby.
When | heard its soft whimper, and its corpse-like skin took on a healthier tone, | sighed in relief.
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