Fatal Fae (The Night Realm: Court Marked Book 1) by Chandelle LaVaun & Megan Montero

Author:Chandelle LaVaun & Megan Montero [LaVaun, Chandelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wanderlost Publishing & Leo Press
Published: 2022-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN

COLLINS

I felt like a baby bird that’d been kicked from the nest to learn how to fly for the first time. It shouldn’t have been so hard to run on longer legs, yet I wobbled and stumbled every few feet. Peggy’s shop was at the front of their property, but the run to the guest house out back felt like it took an hour. Like running in a dream, no matter how hard I pumped my legs, I barely moved.

The red door was finally in sight. I threw my whole body into it, slamming the wood into the wall and shattering glass I hadn’t realized was there.

Mom, Philip, Vic, and Peggy all gasped and jumped. Their eyes all widened.

“COLLINS?” Mom shrieked.

Peggy paled. “OH NO. Freaky Friday.”

“What’s going—”

“HE TOOK HER!” I screamed, silencing all of their questions. “BASTIEN TOOK TALLULAH!”

Silence.

Mom raced over to me and gripped my hand. “Collins, tell me what happened.”

“We were in the store, trying to just relax. She found this potion to switch bodies, so we took it. We were giggling. All of a sudden—” Bile rose up my throat. I slammed my mouth closed and shook my head. “Prince Bastien walked in . . . and then . . . and then everything went black. I heard her scream, but when my vision came back, she was gone.”

Vic dropped back down onto the couch. “He thought she was you.”

“You were right next to her.” Philip ran his hands through his hair. Gray feathers poked out of his arms like the stress was trying to force him to shift. “You were close enough that he sensed your presence but didn’t realize you weren’t in your body.”

“Yet.” Mom nodded. Her whole body was rigid. “It won’t take long for him to figure it out. We have to go. Now. We can’t wait until tomorrow. We can’t wait to train you anymore. Once Queen Tephine realizes she’s not you, she will kill her.”

I let out a strangled cry. I should have known better. I was the Stone Keeper. I knew they were after me, and yet I let my friend wear my face. I suddenly realized I still wore hers. “I look like her right now.”

Peggy snapped her fingers. “I can reverse that.” And then she sprinted out of the room.

“Collins.” When I turned to her, Mom squeezed my hands. “We’re gonna turn you back into you, that way they might see two of you and not outright kill her. But we have to move quick.”

“I should go with you—”

“No. Philip, no.” She held her hand up to him. “If you go in there, it might draw the wrong attention from Tephine. Her best bet is for us to get to her unnoticed. Plus, we can’t both leave the boys yet. Help Vic get them settled and then we’ll talk.”

Philip growled and argued, but I stopped listening. My whole body trembled.

“HERE!” Peggy screamed as she flew back into the room and straight to me. She thrust an uncapped brown vial into my hand.

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