A Place of Sorcery & Betrayal: A Dark Fae Romance (The Fae Girl Book 3) by Ellie Sanders

Author:Ellie Sanders [Sanders, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

My nerves were all over the place. In my head I’d planned this to feel different. To be different.

But that talk with Cait, that knowledge that so many Fae had been imprisoned and collared and that Fain had been apart of it seemed to wreak havoc with my conscience. How could I be with someone capable of that? How could I just turn a blind eye and pretend that none of it had happened?

If Fain could sense where my head was at, he didn’t say anything. He just sat there, beside me, staring into the fireplace as it crackled and roared.

I’d had a tree brought up while we were at the feast. The guards had looked at me as if I were mad but I’d explained what I wanted and to my relief when we’d returned here, it was stood, beside the hearth, leaning against the wall like they didn’t know what to do with it.

Fain hadn’t said anything beyond a raise of his eyebrows. He’d simply walked over and got the fire going, while I’d sat on the floor and watched him.

“In my world we have a thing called Christmas.” I said breaking the silence.

“And the tree is part of that?” He replied.

I nodded. “It was a religious festival but now it’s about family, about friends. It’s tradition to have a tree and to decorate it.”

“With what?”

I smiled, producing the box that I’d spent months building up. It was full of ribbons and trinkets, and in truth, none of it was particular ‘Christmassy’ and yet it would do.

“Do we need to make the tree stand?” Fain asked.

I let out a laugh. “That would definitely help.”

He got up, disappeared for a moment and came back with a bucket. “Will this do?”

I nodded, lifting the tree as he put the bucket in place.

Clearly, he was letting me lead this, and I set about laying a red blanket to hide the bucket before I started laying out all the decorations.

“Is there some sort of plan to this?”

I smiled, “No plan,” I said meeting his curious gaze. “Just take what you like, put it where you think it will look good.”

He gave me a look like he couldn’t tell if this was all some sort of a prank but he picked up a glass ball that I’d wrapped a ribbon around to turn it into something you could hang. He tilted his head, before placing it one of the lower branches.

“Perfect.” I said.

He raised an eyebrow but took another, doing the same.

As we slowly put all the pieces on I told him stories of Santa Claus, of Rudolf, or all the little traditions that came with Christmas.

“So, every year you did this?”

“Yes, every year. In my world we have all four seasons each year. Christmas falls in December.”

“What is December?”

“That’s the name of the month.” I explained.

He frowned more. “You don’t name your months after the moon cycles?”

I smirked. “No.”

“So, every year you did this, you decorated a tree, and you gave gifts?”

I tensed, sighing as an old pain I hadn’t felt in forever suddenly flared.

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