Compelled to be Fae (Sacrificed to the Fae King Book 3) by Lola Glass

Author:Lola Glass [Glass, Lola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The next two weeks passed in a blur.

I slept for nearly the entirety of the first week.

Then, I sat down at my piano, and I didn’t get up. I fell asleep draped over the keyboard every night, and when one of the girls tried to move me, I’d wake up, and I’d cry, and I’d play so that I didn’t have to cry any more.

I missed my grandpa.

I missed my grandma.

I missed Auden.

There was a numb, aching hole in the center of my chest that nothing seemed to be able to fill.

Hannah and Elyn took turns bringing me food; they would make me stop playing long enough to eat and walk around the room, and then they would sit with me until my music had them crying so hard that they had to leave.

They made me put on real, human clothes—one of Elyn’s old sweatshirts and a pair of leggings, with a sports bra and real panties too. They thought it would make me feel normal. It just made me feel more numb.

The magic my music created wasn’t happy.

It was the soul-numbing, heart-crushingly sad kind that proclaimed the pain of my loss for anyone near enough to hear it.

The music didn’t get any easier to play, or easier to hear. But slowly and surely, the numbness faded to a bearable weight.

The fourteenth day, I switched to the few soft, classical songs that I knew.

I didn’t want to hear any words rolling through my head as I played; I wanted peace.

The fifteenth day, I played a little Jack Johnson as the day dwindled to night.

Elyn came in with my dinner, and when she sat beside me, she didn’t cry.

That felt like success, in a small but meaningful way.

She left me after I ate, and I walked to the door that opened to the ocean. Froet had closed it after he deposited me in bed that day.

Mine and Auden’s bed.

My bed.

I hated sleeping alone now that I knew how it felt to sleep in Auden’s arms.

Pulling my sweatshirt sleeves over my hands, I then wrapped my arms around my middle as I stared at the door.

I needed the ocean.

I was trying to eat, but the human food wasn’t enough anymore. I was a sea fae; the ocean would keep me alive, not the calories and protein and carbs in food that would go to my stomach.

My fingers lifted to rest on the door, and I pressed them into the stone.

Tomorrow.

I’d swim tomorrow.

Shuffling over to the bed, I curled up into a ball, and fell asleep.

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