Fae King by Joanna Mazurkiewicz

Author:Joanna Mazurkiewicz [Mazurkiewicz, Joanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joanna Mazurkiewicz

Chapter Thirteen

Intense Moment

I screamed at the top of my lungs, begging her to stop, knowing we were going to fall to our deaths, but the red-haired Fae didn’t seem to hear me at all. She was attempting to knock us off that wobbly bridge. My hands were slowly slipping.

“Stop it—what are you doing? We are going to die out here!” I shouted again and again, barely hanging onto the ropes. The Fae guards behind us were shouting but weren’t stepping on the bridge at all. I tried to close my eyes and pretend this wasn’t happening, that I was still with Darragh in the forest. Now I knew I shouldn’t have listened to her. She was completely insane.

“Just trust me,” she shouted back. “This is the only way out of here.”

Then the Unseelie Fae started shooting arrows at us, one missed my ear by a few inches, and I thought this was it. I glanced back, and in that same moment, my foot slipped. A split second later, I was hanging on the rope by only my hands, seeing nothing but a huge pit of darkness down below. I knew if I was going to fall, then that was it—no magic could save me from death.

I’d never had any upper-body strength, so my hands couldn’t hold the rope as I tried to pull myself back on the bridge. The Fae who was supposed to rescue me was struggling to remain on the bridge, too. Moments later, she was shouting something in a language I didn’t understand, most likely towards the Fae who were far behind.

Arrows were still flying past me, and I was amazed I hadn’t been grazed by even one. The Unseelie Fae weren’t using their magic. A second later, my fingers slipped, and I was falling. In that moment, my entire life in Farrington began flashing before my eyes. This couldn’t have been it. I didn’t want to die, chased by Unseelie bastards.

Moments later I realised I was going to live, because I never hit the ground. Well, I sort of did, but it was not a life-threatening fall. I ended up bruising my elbow, and for a moment, I must have lost consciousness. When I came around, the redheaded Fae who saved me was slapping my cheek.

“Come on, wake up, wake up. We are fine, we tricked them.” She was saying and finally stopped hitting me when she saw I was coming around. I gazed up, completely disoriented, amazed I wasn’t actually dead.

“What happened? Where are the Unseelie Fae?”

“Never mind them. We are in the Fae King’s cell, and he doesn’t look too good. They must have used magic to make him talk.”

I finally managed to pick myself up off the ground. Every part of my body hurt, but more my hips than anything, which seemed odd. That’s how most human women described pain after a very intensive labour, but I didn’t remember giving birth to a child. The room was dark, but her hands were gleaming with light.

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