Invisible Embrace Book 3 by Mary Buckham

Author:Mary Buckham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal urban fantasy, paranormal romance, paranormal romance series, invisible recruits, Kelly McAllister, paranormal fantasy, romantic suspense
Publisher: Cantwell Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 24

No matter how hard I tried to think about Egorbotom, the cheery yellow warbler, safe places and happy thoughts, all that came to mind was a prison guarded by the Council of Seven’s minions. If they allowed me to live.

No helping Aini, no being an IR agent, no making a difference in the world.

A yawning black hole that made a trip to the Underworld seem like a nice alternative. Tav went silent after dropping his exploding bomb, Van disappeared to get dressed and come back to sit where he could watch me. I don’t know what he expected I’d do—send myself topside? Suicide by teleporting? Pericui fae, or a particular Pericui fae, seemed to be no worse off for his few minutes in the fresh, oxygen-starved air, but I’d be dead within seconds.

Another unpleasant thought to swim around inside my head. And here hours ago I thought having Jennifer inside my skull was the worst that could happen. What was it that the mother who’d raised me always said? If you get trouble, you brought it on yourself because bad things didn’t happen to good people.

And what about Tav and Van? They both worked, in one way or another, for the Council. These were the two I was supposed to trust with finding the truth out about my birth? About who I was?

Foxes guarding the hen house didn’t even come close to the conflict of interests I stared at in the face. Van might, if push came to shove, think of me first and the Council’s needs second. But I wasn’t one hundred percent sure about that. As for Tav? There’d be no reason for him to work at odds to the Council’s demands.

I was so screwed.

I must have closed my eyes for a moment, avoidance at its most elemental, because the next thing I knew, Van was buckling my seatbelt and I could feel the air pressure change in the cabin.

I’d fallen asleep. Last thing I expected to do, unless Tav made that happen, or I did as an avoidance technique. If that was the case I might try it again, opting to not wake up at all. Not suicide exactly, except it was a coward’s way out. No matter who my father was, who my mother was, I hadn’t been raised to run away from problems.

Too bad.

“We’ll be landing in a few minutes,” Van whispered as the buckle clicked closed. His words felt like a caress. A caress from someone with Council allegiance? How naïve could I be?

Didn’t he realize that “things” would never be okay. Not for me. My freak-o-meter had gone from abnormal to beyond stratosphere crazy. There was no going back to thinking I was a kindergarten teacher, with two distant but perfectly human parents, and a life. It might have been boring, and sometimes stifling, but it was a life. My life.

And I alone was responsible for it. No help, not even from my so-called allies.

“Stop chewing on his words. He’s an ass-hole” Van rose to his feet, perfectly aware his voice carried.

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