Bound Powers (Pride & Joy Book 2) by Saruuh Kelsey

Author:Saruuh Kelsey [Kelsey, Saruuh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

The next day, Joy had been sat in the library for hours and she had little to show for it. Every book of myths, legends, and famous fae had told her the same things Kordell had about the queen Ignatia. She was powerful and renowned for her amber magic—magic that transformed the colour of her skin to a honeyed gold, magic that burned into a person and removed ‘evil power’.

Joy wanted to know more—how Ignatia used her power, what it did to her each time, how she lived with it if it really did burn the magic out of people. How she didn’t feel all torn up inside as Joy did every time she closed her eyes and saw Perchta screaming, weeping.

But what Joy wanted to know most was if Ignatia had her amber power because she was fae and a witch, the child of both, like Joy. She spent another hour reading the sections about fae magic in any book she could get hold of but there was very little published knowledge about the fae outside their own libraries. They were secretive and private and Joy really couldn’t picture any fae openly talking about their nature for a non-fae to put into a book. Well, maybe she could picture her mum helping someone write their book—Joy’s mum would help anyone. Had that got her killed? Had she invited someone inside to help them while Joy had been at the beach?

Her chest seized with pain as it did every single time. Why couldn’t Joy have just gone home earlier? Why did she have to stay out all night? And would it have made any difference at all? That was the worst question. The not knowing hurt the worst. Would it have changed anything if Joy had gone home at ten P.M. instead of three A.M.? Or would she have walked into a silent house all the same, moving carefully upstairs, apprehension beating against her ribs, to find her mum in bed, utterly still?

Joy gave up on the books after another half hour, knowing only that fae magic was connected to the water—which she already knew from her mum and from the pull in Joy’s blood even now to the ocean, that mass of water and magic and promises. She bundled herself up in her coat and hat—was it ever going to get warmer this year? It felt like it had been winter for forever—and trudged through the sleek coating of snow up the high street.

She kept replaying that day in town hall, running through everything she’d done. At first she thought, with no tools left, no sachets or potions or incantations to help her, she’d drawn on her raw witchcraft—that base power inside every witch that interpreted their will effortlessly but impulsively, that could as easily harm as it did protect—but now she wasn’t sure. She’d known, without anything to help her cast a spell, she would call up something deep inside, some well of power she usually overlooked, but

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