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From Katherine's Journal: The von Strassenberg Saga 2.5
“Your precious Viktor,” he whispered
near my ear, his foul breath washing over me. “Has disappeared. He has been
gone so long,” with his finger, so long and thick it could have been a small
branch, he yanked at my hair, as was his habit. “They begin to worry if he is
not dead.”
I did not respond though the
questions burned in me. Why had he gone and to where? There was no time to
ponder these concerns or even for tears to well in my eyes before he added,
“The doctor is fuming, you know?” He never called Klaus von Strassenberg
anything other than the doctor. He was not a creature bound by
convention. He narrowed his light red eyes at me as though searching my
thoughts to see if I could reason out why the doctor would be fuming, other
than the simplest reason that his one good son had run off. He leaned back upon
his bed, resting against the wall. A sheen of sweat shone on his pale skin as
the light of the oil lamp danced across his features. He would be taken away
for more treatments soon. I rejoiced at the thought of him falling ill once
more and felt no shame for it.
“The doctor,” he continued, watching
me carefully, his words beginning to slur. The weariness was setting in again.
Klaus would return soon with our evening meals. Peter would undoubtedly try to
hide his symptoms from his father but even I could see the signs that would
lead to the inevitable sedative. Many nights I had dreamed of this opportune
moment when the doctor was consumed with the task of coaxing his son to inject
himself and then with the even more arduous task of dragging the immobile hulk
onto a gurney. I would wait until Klaus was inside the cell with us, when all
of his effort was concentrated on lifting that colossal form, and I would leap
past them, out the door and grab the keys off the wall, imprisoning them both.
Invigorated by my escape, I would take flight up the twisting stone staircase
and find my way back to Viktor.
Only, I knew, my plans would not
succeed.©2013GwennWright
To get caught up before Katherine's Journal releases on Valentine's Day, read Filter: Book One of The von Strassenberg Saga and Bluestocking Girl: Book Two, available for Nook, Kindle and in beautiful paperbacks. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11234679-filter
