CSBB Snippet
Here’s a snippet from a CSBB work in progress for you to enjoy!
For all her life, Emma had lived under the threat of Regina’s possible return. The former Evil Queen had been defeated and expelled from the kingdom – Emma was fairly certain the woman was dead, by this point – but that didn’t stop her parents from worrying she’d return to exact her revenge. It was why Emma knew how to handle a sword, to shoot a bow and arrow, and to track and forage – all of the things that princesses normally eschewed in favor of high teas and pretty dresses. Not that Emma minded teas and dresses – she liked them very much, in fact – but she never had a chance to choose one or the other. It was suffocating, waiting for something that might never come. “You have to understand, for years she was always trying to hunt them down. Your mother would fall asleep not knowing if she would wake up again,” her Aunt Red had once explained. Emma had felt empathy for her mother, but she didn’t want to live in the past, especially one that was long gone. The desire to escape her gilded cage was what initially drew her to Killian. He was handsome, of course, and a brilliant dancer. But he promised something different, something exciting, and forbidden. She’d been taught to approach her life with caution, to be prepared for the next big attack, that she wanted a different sort of risk, something – someone – exciting. And then she ran away and married him.
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