The Devil's Cursed Witch
The tale of a man who brings death and a girl who denies it. ---- On the haunted mountain in the kingdom, they say there lived a witch. She was born a princess. But even before her birth, the priest declared her to be cursed and demanded her death. They poisoned the mother to kill the baby before she gave birth, but the baby was born out of the dead mother—a cursed child. Again and again, they tried to kill the baby but she miraculously survived every single attempt. Giving up, they abandoned her on the haunted mountain to die but she still survived on that barren land— A witch ‘Why won’t she die?’ Years later, the people finally had enough of the witch and decided to burn the mountain. But the Devil arrived to her rescue and took her with him from that burning place, because dying was not her destiny even then. Draven Amaris. The Black Dragon, who ruled over supernatural beings, the Devil who no one wished to cross a path with. He hated humans but this certain human girl would pull him towards her whenever she was in danger. ‘Is she really a human?’ He took the human with him and named this mysteriously tenacious girl “Ember”, a piece of glowing coal in a dying fire. A soul tainted with vengeance and the darkness of hell, would rise from the ashes and fulfil her revenge. ------ This is the second book from the series of The Devils and Witches. 1st book - Witch's daughter and the Devil's son. 3rd book- The Devil's Betrothed. All books are connected to each other but you can read them as stand-alone.
Improvement In Her Situation.
The next morning, Draven opened his eyes with a start, surprised by how sound his sleep was despite having the human in his embrace. Bright sunlight had filled the chamber and he realized he was late to wake up. It was his habit to wake up at the break of dawn, just as the first ray of morning sun showed up. However, today he slept through that and stayed in bed even after the sun was high in the sky.
He could not even recall when in the past thousand years had he slept this peacefully. Sleeping holding someone closer did truly make a difference.
He shook his head. 'I am looking too much into useless things.'
He lowered his head and looked at the human female in his arms, who was still sleeping without even the faintest idea of her situation.
He wondered, 'If she wakes up like this, how will she react?'
He moved as gently as he could to place her head back on the pillow, releasing her from his embrace.