Flightless (Fairy, Texas Book 2) by Margo Bond Collins

Author:Margo Bond Collins [Collins, Margo Bond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bathory Gate Press
Published: 2016-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Laney

There it was. The one thing I hadn’t wanted to admit, even to myself.

My powers—even if I hadn’t had any indication at all that they were going to show up again, even under Oma Elaine’s tutelage—had to have come from somewhere. And the People of Fairy, Texas, whether they were called fairies or demons or any other name, were, in fact, a people. A clan. Genetically connected.

Both my parents had grown up here.

John Hamilton had been Mom’s high school sweetheart, and they had reconnected after his first wife died. That’s why we had come back to Fairy in the first place. For her to marry him.

Right?

So where did Thomas Gunn fit into all this?

My stomach clenched. Suddenly, nothing I knew seemed definite.

I stared around at the three other people in the room. I wanted to say “my friends,” but even that wasn’t definite. He tried to hide it, at least sometimes, but Josh was still furious with me over having lost his wings. Kayla was warming up to me, especially now that she was in on the big Fairy secret, but it was still touch-and-go with her. After all, I had kissed her boyfriend. Half the school still assumed I had been having sex with him. And now that he was back together with Kayla, Mason had been keeping his distance for just that reason.

I felt more alone than I had in a long time.

It might be comforting to talk to Mom about some of this.

Not all of it, of course. Not until I found out whether or not she knew about the People. If I could protect her, keep her from being drawn into this business, I would. Knowing about the demon-fairy People of Fairy, Texas, was dangerous.

Everyone watched me intently as I made eye contact with each of them. “Okay. I’ll see what I can find out.”

Mason leaned forward. “And then what? So what if you’re one of us?” He turned to Josh. “What will it change if we know that for sure?”

Regarding his friend through narrowed eyes, Josh said, “For one thing, it’ll give us information about why Laney’s father is here. If he’s not one of the People—if the bloodline is through Laney’s mom—then him showing up here might just be weird timing. But if he is, then he might have bigger plans. If that’s the case, then we need to know.”

“What if it’s neither of them?” Kayla’s interjection made me frown.

“What do you mean?” Josh asked her.

“I mean, what if Laney’s some kind of throwback or something? What if both her parents have fairy blood, but her parents don’t know? That’s possible, right?”

Mason’s gobsmacked expression suggested he hadn’t considered the possibility before. I knew I hadn’t. But Josh was nodding. “It’s possible,” he said. “Not all mixed-blood children inherit the powers that come from their fairy heritage.”

“Right,” Kayla continued. “It’s basic genetics. If two of those no-powers children had a child of their own, it could inherit the power-gene from both sides and end up having powers that the parents don’t have.

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