A Mysterious Murder in Faerywood Falls (Mountain Magic Mysteries Book 7) by Blythe Baker

Author:Blythe Baker [Baker, Blythe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

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I couldn’t quite reconcile myself with how Lucan had been treating me. He was always so intentional when we spoke; polite, he always made eye contact with me whenever I spoke. Tonight, though, he seemed way more interested in those books he was going through.

I grimaced as I drove through the dark. He said he was busy dealing with other things, but he wouldn’t tell me what those things were. I wasn’t really sure why, but for some reason, his desire to keep all that from me hurt. He was always so forthcoming with information that this just seemed…out of character for him.

Get a hold of yourself, I scolded myself. You’re being ridiculous. He talked to you, didn’t he? If he really didn’t want to, he would’ve said he was busy and I wouldn’t have gone over in the first place.

Even still, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something had changed, and the longer I thought about it, the more convinced I became that it was the fact that I was a faery.

Was he frightened of me? Did he despise me? Was he like those on the council of eleven who had it out for my mother, and was he so jealous of me and my power that he was planning my demise?

I shook my head, trying to clear it of those terrible thoughts.

Lucan’s not like that. He wouldn’t do that.

I swallowed hard, my throat tightening like someone was closing their hand around it.

That’s what I thought about Cain, too, and he turned on me.

The thought of Cain brought on another whole layer of pain that I hadn’t expected.

I wished Athena was with me. She’d been sleeping so soundly when I left that evening that I didn’t have the heart to wake her, but in that moment, I wished I had someone to help me get out of my own thoughts. They just kept circling around themselves.

Cain knew I was a faery, and he tried to protect me by not saying anything. I discovered the truth about myself, and went after his sister. His sister died because of me. He exiled me from his life. My secret got out. Lucan became distant in the same way that Cain was…

All because I was a faery.

This truth about myself was literally starting to ruin my life.

Why had I been so thoughtless and determined? Why was I so impatient to learn the truth that I let my own secrets become exposed? I did everything I could to find out about my mother, my father, that others in my life were able to see right through the façade I’d so carefully constructed around myself in order to hide that secret.

I tried as hard as I could to focus on the road ahead of me, but my thoughts were making it incredibly difficult.

These two men who had started to mean so much to me…they’d turned their backs on me. Was this just the way it was all along? Had I put too much trust in

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