A Change of Heart by Wren Elton

Author:Wren Elton [Elton, Wren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

The next morning, I start to draft a set of letters to my sisters, but I don’t know exactly what to tell them. I want to get them here, to see if Emery can break their curses as well, but he doesn’t know what he did, and I don’t know what he did, and it’s not as though we can recreate the night that Emery and I shared together.

Regardless of how Emery would feel about that, I want to set something on fire whenever I consider that sleeping with Emery would somehow cure them. That couldn’t be it.

It also just doesn’t feel like my mother would have created a curse for me and my sisters where the way to end the curse is to have sex with a random fae male.

Not that she created the curse to have some way to end it, but still. All things with a beginning must also have an end.

I go out to the garden and start collecting fruit from the trees behind the cottage. The garden has gotten rather large now. I can’t stop collecting the plants that Emery makes, the thought of letting them die makes me sad, and he doesn’t know how to pull them back into the earth yet, so I just keep finding more space for them.

My raven crows from a low branch on one of the bare trees and I look up to see that she’s looking up at the sky, her head tilted to the side.

I follow her gaze and see a small sprite buzzing around the canopy of the trees.

The creature is wearing a small apron around it’s middle and it’s little wings are translucent, shimmering in the sunlight as it gets closer. I watch as it approaches, awed more than anything. It crosses my mind to be worried about what this means at some point, but the creature is so small that my bird could probably eat it if she wanted to.

It lowers itself through the trees until it’s flying right in front of me.

“Hello.” It nods it’s head, folding a hand behind it’s back as it does. “Are you Catherine Redford? Sister of Clair Redford?”

Clair?

“Where are you from?” I ask before answering. This creature doesn’t raise any hackles, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to give away information without asking for any in return.

“I am a member of the Northern Court, I work for the High Prince Aslan and the royal family, including Sir Archer. He has instructed that I find a Catherine Redford on behalf of her sister, his mate, Clair Redford. Are you Catherine Redford?”

I am rooted to the spot. I stare at this small creature, eyes wide and holding my breath, before I remember that I can’t do that now, I need to breathe.

I take a shaky breath and put a hand over my heart. “I am.” I nod, holding my hand out. “I’m Catherine.”

“Yes, I know.” The creature reaches a hand into its apron and pulls out a thick parchment envelop that seems to get bigger as it’s pulled from the folds of the apron material.

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