Jade's Paradox: Becoming Fairy Queen (Teen Shapeshifter Delacourt Saga Book 3) by Hardesty Isabelle

Author:Hardesty, Isabelle [Hardesty, Isabelle]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2018-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Being so close her sister, Jade knew the next step she had to take. She had to get Soraya involved, even though she was the last person Nyx would want to see.

Half of her sister was Cloyn, but the other half was Protector Fairy, like their mother, Soraya.

Jade sat at the diner, waiting to catch Soraya’s attention, hardly knowing how to start the conversation.

Should she begin with an ‘I’m sorry?’ Or maybe ‘You’re the mom I have always imagined’? She didn’t know, so she just smiled.

Soraya put the coffee pot down and walked towards Jade with a timid smile. “It’s nice to see you H—, I mean, Jade.”

Jade realized her biological mother almost called her by her birth name, “Heralina.” What would her life have been liked raised by Soraya and not her adoptive parents, Rosa and Henry? What would life had been like raised outside of the suburbs of Atlanta and instead raised in the fairy realm?

“It’s nice to see you, too. I’m still confused, but glad that I found you, finally. But that’s not why I’m here. “

“Oh,” Soraya said softly.

She looked down as she wiped the counter with a blue rag.

Soraya looked older. Gray hairs were sprinkled among her brown hair. For the first time, she wore it up in a loose bun. Her mascara seemed to accentuate the dark circles under her eyes.

“I know you were the victim here, too. Part of my anger is that you had to suffer this, too,” Jade said.

“But I didn’t suffer for years because of that Forget Sorrows spell that my Father or Bex cast on me.”

“He might have done it, thinking he was helping you somehow—helping you avoid feeling the pain of missing me and then Nyx.”

Jade looked around the diner, glad that it wasn’t busy. She leaned in close and touched Soraya’s hand.

Soraya squeezed Jade’s hand and then wiped a tear from her check with her other hand. She said, “That man only looked out for himself.” She exhaled.

Jade was realizing how evil her grandfather truly was. She squeezed her mother’s hand.

“Enough of the past that we can’t change. I’m here now.” Soraya folded the damp rag into a neat square and then added, “Let’s enjoy this nice weather and find out why you’ve come by to see me.”

Jade asked, “Is it okay if you just leave?”

“Yeah, I own this place,” she said with a shrug. She walked around the counter and spoke to one of the other wait staff. Then Soraya and Jade walked out of the diner and onto the sidewalk. It was a beautiful autumn day in New York City. The gingko biloba trees were yellow and rattled in the afternoon breeze.

“The maidenhair tree is lovely this time of the year,” Soraya said as she wrapped her arm around Jade’s.

“I thought it was a ginkgo tree.”

“It goes by both names. Did you know it can live for up to three thousand years?”

“Wow,” Jade said as a leaf fell and twirled down, getting swept up in invisible tendril of the breeze.

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