The Gender End by Bella Forrest (the giving tree read aloud TXT) 📕

look, then looked at Morgan and Owen. “Right—so sorry, Owen. Queen Morgan.” He fell back in line, trying to look inconspicuous, and I caught Viggo shaking his head.

As the wedding procession moved along, I saw Henrik stepping up after Cruz—in fact, I was pretty sure Cruz was supposed to go at the end of the line, judging by the way Henrik grabbed his shoulder and stepped past him to move behind Viggo. Following Henrik were Cody, Solomon, Jay, Quinn, Tim, and Logan—and Logan waited for Cruz to regain his spot just in front of him before continuing the procession. It was all I could do to keep from laughing, but I was pretty sure Owen and Morgan didn’t care.

“My man should’ve cut,” Amber whispered up the line, and I grinned as I saw Logan rolling his eyes at her from behind Cruz’s back.

Owen and Morgan noticed none of this, or maybe just ignored it, their eyes solely on one another. Their eye contact never broke as they drew together, coming to a slow halt.

Owen reached out with his hand, and Morgan settled hers on top of his in an almost ritualized way. Then again, the chamberlain had made them practice more than a few times. I waited as they moved forward together, up to the lip of the pool, where the chamberlain waited.

The chamberlain’s hair was free, her dress a simple white frock, her arms and legs bare.

“They stand here as equals—partners—their duties to each other as well as their people. Does anyone object to the union of the two before us?”

Silence met the question, and she smiled serenely.

“Recite your vows,” she commanded.

I looked at Viggo as Owen began to speak, staring at him across the small space that separated us. He grinned at me while Owen recited his vows—the very same vows Morgan had made us recite—and I returned the smile, pressing my hand to my stomach, right up against where I hoped Melissa (or Thomas, if our child was a boy) was settling in for the night. I recalled the moment of our wedding, the vows sounding comfortingly familiar, and I knew they were still as true for me and Viggo as the day we’d said them. I knew as long as Viggo and I had each other and our family, we could face whatever tomorrow brought, for good or for bad.

And the bad was disappearing, slowly, one day at a time.

What’s next?

Dear Reader,

I hope you enjoyed the conclusion to The Gender Game series. It’s been an incredible journey and I want to thank you for accompanying Violet and Viggo til the end.

Saying goodbye to them and their group is both sad and bittersweet—their story will always hold a deep place in my heart—but I’m also looking forward to a new adventure.

This book marks the end of Matrus and Patrus’s story, but not the end of the world that surrounds them.

If you’re curious to know more about the mysterious Tower civilization Violet came across in this book, keep turning the pages to read 3 early sneak-peek bonus chapters from The Girl Who Dared to Think — a book that continues the story of Violet’s greater world.

The Girl Who Dared to Think releases very soon: August 9th, 2017.

Check out the breathtaking cover, and keep turning for the bonus chapters:

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BONUS CHAPTERS The Girl Who Dared to Think

Blurb:

How do you fight an enemy when they’re inside your mind?

A gargantuan glass-walled tower looms over a deadly wilderness. They say it’s all that’s left.

The Tower’s survival is humanity's survival, and each must serve it faithfully...

Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks. Her life is defined by the number on her wristband — a rating out of ten awarded based on her usefulness and loyalty to the Tower, and monitored by a device in her skull. A device that reports forbidden thoughts.

Liana is currently a four, the lowest possible acceptable score, and despite her parents’ perfect scores of ten, she struggles to increase it. Rebellious ideas come all too easily, and resentfulness seems part of her being. She is an Knight-in-training, but her future will be dark if she cannot raise her worth...

Threes require drug treatment.

Twos are isolated.

Ones disappear.

When Liana's worst nightmare comes to pass and she drops to a three, desperation spurs her down a path few dare to tread. A chance encounter with a cocky young man whose shockingly dissident attitude toward the Tower couldn’t possibly have earned him the perfect “ten” on his wrist, sets her on a trail to save herself—even at the risk of dropping lower.

Stalking the young man seemed like a simple enough task, but after events take an unexpected twist, Liana finds herself taking a treacherous dive into the darkest depths of the Tower… and the decades’ old secrets buried within.

In a society where free thinking can make you a criminal, one girl dares to try...

An unforgettable tale brimming with suspense, mystery and romance - The Girl Who Dared to Think will thrill fans of The Gender Game…

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Chapter 1

Before the Tower, humanity dreamed of flying.

We made great machines to lift us away from the earth, roaring on engines that growled with noxious fuels, then rockets that shot us into space. But once we were there, we realized it wasn’t enough. We grew restless. We waged war. We won, and we lost, and we brought the earth to its flaming knees. The sun tore open our irradiated, weakened atmosphere, and life dwindled to ash.

And now, nearly three hundred years after the end, we survived. Hidden behind the thick outer walls of the Tower, we served the monstrous structure that was both our salvation and our prison.

Once, we had dreamed of flying. Now, we didn’t seem to dream at all.

“Squire Castell.” Gerome, my commanding officer, snapped me out of my musings, and I cringed. I’d been daydreaming