Gold by Talia Vance

Author:Talia Vance
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780738734712
Publisher: Flux
Published: 2013-08-14T20:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-ONE

Austin is waiting for me when I get home. He barely lets me get in the door before he starts giving me the third degree about going into town alone.

I walk past him, ignoring his questions. He’s right of course, and the last thing I want is to have to tell him about Jonah. Or Braden. Or Blake.

I’m cold and I’m wet, and I just want a hot shower and a long, long, sleep.

“We need to talk,” he says. “I need to know what happened in the library.”

I left as soon as he mentioned that I was the girl he met a thousand years ago. I hadn’t even told him about Liam’s attack. Water drips on to the floor where we stand. “I’m not ready to talk about it.” Or about your secret lover in the underworld.

Besides, he’ll throw Liam out if I tell him what happened, and we need to know more about the Gathering.

Keep your enemies closer.

I am letting my enemies get much too close. I move past Austin and up the stairs to my room.

Everything is changing too fast.

Braden is definitely fuath. But he doesn’t seem nearly as evil as Austin made him out to be. Blake and Portia definitely slept together. And now he’s bound to her. And Austin? Austin has definitely been keeping secrets.

The only thing I know for certain is that I have to stop Liam. No way do I let that sadistic bastard take over the world.

So I fight.

I just have to figure out how. My options are pretty limited at the moment.

I keep going back to the idea that I can stop everything before it starts. So the next morning, I take Panda back to the ruin.

I rub the little horse between my fingers. The carvings in the stone look softer somehow. Are they fading? That doesn’t make sense. They’ve been here for hundreds of years. The last few weeks would barely register on a timeline. Unless I’m the one who is running out of time.

The charm still fits into the carving perfectly.

The sun gives way to clouds. The fog is less disorienting now that I know what’s on the other side. I close my eyes and wait until I feel the grass beneath my feet. Sun warms my skin. The wind is quiet.

There’s a rustling to my right. I open my eyes, expecting to see Austin. But it’s Gwyn who meets my gaze and strides toward me.

She lifts the wide skirts of a dress that is a shade deeper than the blue sky overhead, “Who are you?” It’s more accusation than question.

“Your heir.”

“Is that so?” Her accent is thick, and I have to strain to understand her. “You believe you can just appear out of nowhere and claim my birthright?”

“I don’t know why I’m here.”

Gwyn puts her hands on her waist. I can’t help noticing the chain around her neck, the wolfsbane pendant is identical to the flower charm on my bracelet.

“Look.” I hold out my wrist. The setting is different, but the flower is only differentiated by the centuries of tarnish and wear.

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