Heiress of Gold by Jennifer Ellision & J.A. Armitage

Author:Jennifer Ellision & J.A. Armitage [Armitage, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enchanted Quill Press
Published: 2020-04-29T05:00:00+00:00

3rd May

Try as I might for the rest of the night, no matter how I pressed, my mother did not change her mind. She would not tell me what the word meant, or why it was of such importance to her that she'd been driven to decorate our home with it but would never actually clue me in on what it meant. We were equally stubborn, she and I. She’d instilled her own qualities in me. She kept determinedly trying to get me to answer her questions about place settings. She didn’t realize that this wasn’t a childish case of a daughter wanting to know what her mother kept from her. There were real lives at stake in her answer. Unicorn lives.

But I couldn’t tell her that.

I gritted my teeth in frustration, thinking about it.

She was wound as tightly as a spring. If she'd only relinquish a little bit of that control she held on to so desperately tightly, maybe she would feel better. We could have solved the problem of the unicorn trapping together. But noooo.

So the next morning, I rang for Judith once again.

Fae was awake when she got there, making little gurgling and cooing noises in my arms. Judith grinned from ear to ear when she saw her. “Twice in two days? I must be the luckiest nursemaid in the land.”

Her smile and clear joy at seeing my daughter again warmed my heart. It was definitely far easier to leave Fae with someone like her, someone who enjoyed having her in her care.

“I’ll be in the staviary today, should you need me,” I told Judith.

“Very good, Your Highness.”

Mother was as mulish as I was, but just because she wouldn’t answer my questions didn’t mean I was just going to give up. I had asked both her and Mr. Swink about Rumpelstiltskin, and the world hadn’t imploded. I could keep on asking questions, and maybe, eventually, I would find someone who was willing to answer them.

Mother wouldn't help me, though it certainly seemed like she had the means to. So I was turning to the other person I trusted more than anything. A person that I would do almost anything for—and, I was pretty sure, someone who would do almost anything for me as well. That was Jay in a nutshell.

I strode out of the palace with Avery and Williamson in tow, in search of Jay. I marched determinedly for the staviary, my stride businesslike and swift.

When I got there, I found Jay hard at work. His brow was furrowed in concentration as the light behind him created a halo effect. I pulled up short, taken aback by the image. Sweat from the warm day and the manual labor had soaked his shirt and made it cling to him. I could see the outline of his undershirt beneath it and beneath that, I could see the hint of his abdominal muscles, flexing each time he leaned over and stood back up. A little ribbon of sweat snaked between his eyes, running into them.

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