Fae Lord Bewitched: Real Men of Othercross (Paranormal Fae Romance) (Real Fae of Othercross Book 4) by Marina Maddix

Author:Marina Maddix [Maddix, Marina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

For a full week, Rad spent every day in the library. When they opened, he was waiting on the steps, and a librarian had to fetch him every night at closing time. At first, they had been curt about it, but something insistent in his manner seemed to tell them that he deserved a gentler hand.

He always made his way to the same study table—an old wooden antique with a leather inset that was cracked and dry with age. To start, he’d worked his way through the ancient texts, finding that he needed a reference close at hand in order to decipher some of the more archaic language and symbols.

It would have been an excellent education if his myopic focus had allowed him to invest in any of it. There were times when he wondered what his cousin Eldan would have made of all of this. Not the romantic aspect, per se, but the study of all these arcane texts might just have thrilled his academic cousin.

Always, as he turned the leaves of the great tomes, Araminta was near at hand. When he had begun his great investigation, she had been visible, at least faintly, most of the time. But, as the days passed, he often could only sense her presence. Perhaps he was merely trusting to it, believing that the search meant as much to her as it did to him.

It had to, didn’t it? After all, the curse was hers. It had trapped her in this place for so many years she claimed to have lost count. Rad would have thought she would be leaping to help him in whatever way she could, but as the days passed, she only seemed to grow sadder.

“What is it today?” she asked as he trundled up to the table on his seventh morning of trying to crack the mystery of her curse.

“The last of the modern witchcraft section,” he said as brightly as he could. “After coming up empty on the internet yesterday, it felt like it was time to get back to good old-fashioned paper, don’t you think?”

He offered her a smile and got a wan one in return.

“Paper is the way to go.”

Her answers were always so damn cryptic that it rankled him. There was always a kind of reticence when she spoke about her curse, as if she possessed more knowledge than she was sharing.

Thinking back to the first time they had talked about it, he thought of how she had shied away from naming the man who had cursed her. It had all sounded strangely like a fairy tale in the way that it lacked in specific details. She had been evasive even then when he had tried to press her, so he had cautiously avoided trying that approach again.

But after days of exhaustive research, he was desperate for any guidance she could give. Any clue that would help him crack this open so he could save her from such a terrible existence.

“Araminta,” he said, “am I on the right track?”

A strange expression crossed what he could see of her face.

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