A Symphony of Savage Hearts (Fae Guardians, Season of the Vampire Book 3) by Lana Pecherczyk

Author:Lana Pecherczyk [Pecherczyk, Lana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-Three

“Unacceptable,” Maebh shouted at the cowering monster at her feet. She picked up the old cradle she’d kept untouched for centuries and smashed it into the wall. “He cannot be mated. I don’t accept it.”

Since her pet had come in with his tentacles between his legs, feeding her his memories, she’d lost it. For the past fifteen minutes she’d let her rage out on the one room she’d always protected. On the daughter she’d lost.

Maebh had been in here, finally packing things up, getting it ready for her consort to move into when she received the news. Shade had a mate. A Well-blessed mate. And they’d both evaded her most powerful hunter. Maebh had put everything she had to give into this creature. She’d sacrificed her good standing with the Well. She’d started a war with the Order. She’d sacrificed her capacity to hold mana. She’d aged.

And here was her beast, telling her there was no point in taking that which was owed to her. She’d never get the love from him she deserved. She’d never replace the legacy she’d lost.

All her plans were unraveling before her eyes. Shade was supposed to come back to her after she let him discover himself. He was supposed to be the new companion in her miserable life. But now she saw it had never been about her. He was never going to come back on his own.

For thousands of years, she sacrificed for her people. She saved them from the humans. She gave her only daughter. Now there was nothing left.

She stared around the broken and battered room. Tears streamed down her face at what she’d done. She didn’t even know she could still cry. She crawled to the broken cradle and sifted through the wreckage to find the soft woolen doll a loyal servant had knitted. She patted it gently. The old knit unraveled and an anguished wail wrenched from her soul. So much time had passed, there was nothing left. It decayed like the slow beating of her heart. Time was her enemy. Petty revenge and vengeance weren’t beyond her, but she was tired. She didn’t know what else to give.

Fond memories surfaced of Shade and her together on top of the palace roof, staring at the stars. They would point at each constellation and make up a story to go with the imagined shape. He’d use shadows to create puppet shows to go with the stories. She’d given him her hoarded, old world astronomy books, and they’d discussed their dreams like a game. It hadn’t all been seduction between the sheets. He’d made her feel young again. He’d made her forget about her loss and believe there was something else out there for her. Maebh placed her palm over her stomach, then brought the tattered knitted doll to her arms and rocked it like she’d once rocked her baby before sending her to the human city as a changeling.

She’d always blamed King Mithras for convincing her to do it. But there was no one to blame but herself.

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