TWO HEADS TWO SPIKES (The Pearl of Wisdom Saga) Read Free Page A

usurp Waters Edge and if I didn’t comply he was going to rape and kill me.” Caroline cowered as Ed stared right through her eyes. Her bright-blues were open windows that let him look straight into her evil intentions.
    Only one person’s name came into Edburgh Etburn’s head. He couldn’t believe it.
    I can’t trust anyone in this world.
    The feeling reminded him of when he had heard the news that his brother Rollo died. He still believed his brother was the only family member that had truly loved him. Edburgh had partially snapped that day and right now the same anger resurfaced like a flood rising up. Once again, rage ran cold through the body of Edburgh Etburn.
    “How did you know I was plotting it?” Caroline questioned.
    “A wise man once told me, ‘Sin lies and dies in the eyes of the beholder,’” he responded. “In your case, it was all over your naked body, not just in your eyes. We have been married for ten years, I know when my wife is up to something,” Ed told her.
    Damn, they are beautiful eyes . How could somebody turn her against me?
    But he couldn’t afford to get distracted by her looks.
    “Now what am I to do with you?” he asked while rubbing his pointed chin.
    “I promise, I will do anything,” Caroline chimed in.
    Edburgh totally lost it now.
    “Promise?” he screamed. “You DID promise, remember? You promised your life to me. Now you attempt to kill me. You promised me children. We have no children.”
    Caroline countered by crying uncontrollably.
    Ed, suddenly soothing her, slowly said, “I do feel for you, let’s just make certain this doesn’t happen again.”
    Before Caroline could start to smile, her erstwhile knife entered her body. The cold, hard steel came in under her tongue, through the roof of her mouth, and into Caroline’s brain. She quivered as life slowly ebbed away, under her own murder weapon, for several moments before lying still.
    “Sorry, but there is only one way to be sure you will not try to kill me again,” he whispered while removing the knife.
    Edburgh wiped the blood off both sides of the blade and stood up over the body.
    “Mattingly forged steel,” he said aloud as he stared at the knife.
    It was the greenish blade referred to as Dragon-Steel. The knife had a golden cross-guard and black leather grip with red fibers alternating with the leather in a strange pattern. The pommel looked like a silver spiked mace as Ed threw it on the bed.
    Caroline Leeson was slumped on the floor as bare as the day she was brought into the world, except for one thing. With a quick motion, Edburgh snatched the silver necklace from her neck and clutched it tightly in his palm. Vengeance now colored his every action.
    I just had to murder the only person I loved. Did I really need to kill her? Mayhaps I have drunk too much? Wait, of course I had to, she was going to kill me. But I should have made her give me his name. No. I know the man who put her up to this, and he shall pay with blood .
    Ed slumped back in a chair and poured an overflowing glass of strong spirits. He drank it faster than most men should. Edburgh Etburn stared at his wife, dead on the floor, as the room began to spin.

THE LITTLE DRAGON
 
JON
    “You boys ought know, we are only as well-off as the poorest man in Mattingly,” Jon Colbert clarified to his sons. Krys, Ryno and Ruxin walked behind their father as he continued, “Just because some people are born into the right family, they don’t deserve a lifelong advantage. We need to empower every man that can provide a skill.”
    Ruxin shook his head, “Father, I have been told by friends that if you put power into the hands of the lowborn, they will behave like barbarians.”
    Jon Colbert quickly retorted, “Our family used to be considered lowborn. If it was not for your grandfather taking a stand, we might not stand here today. Do WE behave like barbarians? I scarcely think so. It was those who betrayed your grandfather that acted like