Cursed Wishes (Three Wishes Book 1) by Marcy Kennedy

Author:Marcy Kennedy [Kennedy, Marcy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780992037222
Publisher: Stronghold Books
Published: 2018-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Salome MacDonald reached into the recesses of her soul, searching with her mind for the well of inner peace that used to be her birthright. Like so many other things she’d lost when she traded her immortality for a numbered human existence, her peace was gone. She’d rarely faced a dilemma serious enough to need it since she’d made her decision to become human. And she, as yet, had no idea how to function without it.

She eased open the door into Ihon’s study. He leaned over his desk with a piece of parchment spread out in front of him. A goose quill pen swung from his fingers like a pendulum. He dipped the end of the quill into his ink pot and touched it to the paper. The earthiness of the soft scratching wrapped around her like an embrace but couldn’t quite chase away the unease that held her mind captive.

He glanced up but didn’t stop writing. “I’ve bad news. Hugh sent word he’ll be joining us for an extended visit no later than week’s end.”

She rubbed at a knot of tension in her shoulder. Hugh’s visits were unwelcome enough when she didn’t also have a nuckalevee and a new potential problem to cope with. Now any decision they made would need to be made under the pressure of his impending arrival. “I’ve placed a couple under watch in the dungeon, my lord husband.”

He grunted. “I’ll have the captain of the guard see they receive the appropriate punishment.”

She would have Ihon’s full attention once he knew the extent of it. They rarely spoke of her past and what she truly was. Only her doctor knew she’d once been fae, and they couldn’t risk a servant overhearing. Even though she was now human and most of the powers she once had were gone, many would still try to use her.

She let him finish writing his current sentence so he wouldn’t forget whatever was of such great import. “They might be unseelie.”

His quill slipped across the page and left an unsightly black blotch where it landed. His body went still.

“The girl asked me to remove a curse and described a seelie fae more accurately than any mortal should have been able to.”

She’d also described Salome’s feelings—nearly unconscious until she’d heard them spoken aloud—about the decision she’d made. Almost as if the young woman sought to make her recant.

He let the quill fall and swiveled in his chair to face her. “A dungeon won’t hold unseelie fae.”

“I’ve set it as a test.” She reached for the well of peace again and hit only emptiness. She would have to figure out how to make decisions without direction from the Lord God, without certainty that the choice she made was right. “I’ve had them placed in the cell nearest the smithy. With so much iron nearby, they won’t hold their human form for long. If they’re unseelie, they’ll need to leave or, by tomorrow morn, be exposed for what they are.”

“We should execute them now.

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