Dark Court: Fire Fae (Complete Boxed Set) by Sophie Davis

Author:Sophie Davis [Davis, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: magic, werewolf, ya, vampire, faery, faerie, shifter, fae
Publisher: Sophie Davis
Published: 2020-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Domed City of Los Angeles, Kingdom of the Americas

Present Day

Kai

“AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING to find her precisely?” Kai barked at the people surrounding him. The gathering included not only his advisors, but half the Californian royal family.

“Your Majesty?” Director Ramone started. Before continuing, she rose slightly from her chair and offered an awkward, half-hearted curtsy.

Kai rounded on her and quirked an eyebrow. “Yes, Director? Would you like to detail the measures you are taking to recapture my mother’s murderer?”

If not for the years of diplomatic training, he would never have been able to say those last words without grimacing. In the seventy-eight hours since police had stormed his hotel suite and taken Brie into custody, Kai’s emotions had been on one hell of a rollercoaster ride. He’d wanted to scream her innocence from the roof of Calypso Palace but wasn’t that stupid. He knew that if he remained resistant to what many believed was the truth about Brie, he would be cut out of the investigation into her disappearance. Kai couldn’t have that. Needing to be kept in the loop, he’d erred on the side of not saying much.

“We have received numerous tips, sightings of the fae,” Director Ramone began again. Her eyes didn’t quite meet his as she cleared her throat and clutched her hands in her lap beneath the large conference table in one of the Calypso Palace’s meeting rooms. “We are assembling teams to investigate the legitimacy of these claims.” She hesitated a beat too long, giving King Ronald the chance to interject.

“Why have you not already sent out investigative teams?” he asked. “The girl has been gone for three days. If we let her gallivant about any longer, she might manage to escape the dome altogether. In the meantime, we cannot have a rebel assassin running about the city.”

California’s reigning monarch sat on a raised dais, on a smaller version, though no less gaudy, of the throne inside the palace’s official throne room. King Ronald wore a navy suit much the one Kai wore, though not quite as slim fit, and a dark red tie that the older man kept smoothing.

“Well, you see, Your Majesty....” Director Ramone glanced around the conference room as she tugged at the cuffs of her black blazer like the sleeves had suddenly shrunk. Many in the room refused to meet her eyes. Like Kai, they had to know that Brie had already left the domed city of Los Angeles. No one wanted to deliver that message to King Ronald.

“What? Spit it out,” Queen Katherine snapped from her post beside her husband’s throne.

The California royals were old-fashioned; they liked formality, pomp, circumstance, and etiquette. Those were all the things Kai wanted to phase out from his own lands, or at the very least update for modern times now that he was king.

“All our intelligence suggests the fae is already in the Freelands. That is where she has been sighted, that is where you need to pursue her,” Ramone finally admitted.

Though

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.