Elf Shot by TA Moore

Author:TA Moore [Moore, TA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance
ISBN: 978-1-64108-589-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2023-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

The story was much the same as the one that Jamie had told him, although sharper edged from someone who’d been there. The prank was meaner, the fey kids less gullible, and Keith didn’t leave them there so much as flee with his tail between his legs.

“He left me there, on the ground,” Nora said. “I thought I was gonna get a pig nose or something for my trouble. They do that in the stories. And—”

She stumbled over her own tongue as she glanced back over her shoulder at Conri. Color slapped her cheeks, and even though he didn’t react, it took her a second to compose her thoughts again.

“Anyhow, all Robin did was help me up. He thanked me for trying to stop Keith and the others, even though they were my friends. He said I was as brave as I was beautiful.” Nora paused halfway over a tangled briar and smiled at the memory of that. Her fingers tightened around the wood knot of the rose runner, thorns sharp where they stuck between her knuckles, and she lifted her chin. “I told him he was full of shit, and that made him laugh. They walked me back to town and… you know what was the most magical thing about it? Not that they were fey, but that they didn’t come from here. Robin grew up in Providence and Shanko was from Brooklyn and… the farthest I’ve ever gone is over the state line for a pig fair. They left me at the gas station—I wasn’t going to let them meet my inbred bigot of a brother—and figured that was it. That was going to be my story. When I was seventy-two and had spent my whole life on the pig farm with my brother and his family, this would be my big brush with fairy-tale romance. The summer I was almost a fairy bride. Pathetic, but better than most people’s romances around here.”

She stopped, shrugged, and jumped down onto the boggy dirt track that faded in and out between the trees. The hound followed her in an easy, long leap that stretched over the thorns.

“Except then he came to the party,” Conri said. He boosted himself over the knot of briar and dropped easily down on the other side. “And asked you to dance.”

He looked at ease here, Bell noted. In the borrowed fey leathers, amidst the thick white alien roses that hung from trees like kudzu, Conri looked like he was made for this. He had been, from what he’d shared, but it still rubbed Bell the wrong way.

It wasn’t suspicion. Bell didn’t know if Conri could be trusted in a wider sense, but he obviously loved Finn, and that meant he was on Iron Door’s side this time. The irritable itch in the back of Bell’s head felt more like… jealousy, like the moment you saw your boyfriend laugh at an inside joke with his ex and they didn’t include you.

Bell wanted to roll his eyes at his neurotic approach to a one-night stand.

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