Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel

Author:Meg Kassel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dark; paranormal; romance; fantasy; forbidden love; Teen and Young Adult Literature and Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Coming of Age Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Girls and Women Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Loners and Outcasts Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Social and Family Issue Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Romance; Teen and Young Adult Emotions and Feelings Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Friendship Fiction; Teen and Young Adult New Experiences Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Fantasy Romance; Teen and Young Adult Paranormal Romance; Teen and Young Adult Fantasy; Teen and Young Adult Magical Realism Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Myths and Legends; Teen and Young Adult Coming of Age Fantasy; Teen and Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy; Teen and Young Adult Epic Fantasy; Teen and Young Adult Science Fiction; Teen and Young Adult Mystery and Thriller Action and Adventure; Teen and Young Adult Science Fiction and Dystopian Romance
Publisher: Entangled TEEN
Published: 2018-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

18

Dresden

all the impossible things

I wanted to kill him. I did seriously consider the option.

It took every bit of willpower to remain hidden when Essie exited her aunt’s car. I knew who he was the instant I saw him. The similarities in bone structure. The fair hair. He was her father, and my bees wanted to sting him. He stunk of a particular variety of darkness that sang to my bees like a siren.

All I did was scare him, as stinging him would have turned him into a homicidal monster. Good for the harbingers, but not for the women inside that house. He hates them. Deeply. It would take so little for him to turn his rage on them. Essie is surrounded by dangerous men.

I didn’t want Essie going inside that house, but hindering her free will is a line I will not cross. I interfered in the course of her life by allowing a bee to sting her great-great-grandmother. I will not take one of the few things she has left.

However, if I had known he would be that horrible to her, I would have crossed that line and intervened, anyway. There is no excuse for abuse.

Instead, I watched her go inside and face her horror of a father through the eyes of a half dozen bees buzzing around the hydrangea bush.

My brave, brave Essie. I can’t imagine the things she saw. The terrible things her mind created for her while her father yelled and smashed and spewed his poison all over. If I could have gotten inside, I would have. Thankfully, I couldn’t. I probably would have scared Essie’s grandmother to death. It’s a good thing bees can’t hear. I didn’t want to know the wretched things that beast was saying to Essie.

Seeing the result was bad enough.

If I was charged with energy, I could kill Essie’s father with one blow. However, satisfying as that may be, killing the man in cold blood would not do good things for Essie’s mental state. And as I told her—I’m not a murderer. I can think about it, though.

I cluster myself as bees in Essie’s neighbor’s peach tree and watch her father’s little red car tear an erratic line down the street.

This man will have his day. I am certain of it. I will make certain of it.

I’m too weak right now to challenge Essie’s father in my human form. If I followed him and tried a physical assault, I’d possibly lose. We beekeepers are compelled to release bees to sting the dark-minded, but fear is what sustains us—fear and all the chaotic, destructive emotions that come with it. Granted, the fear in that house was high, and I did absorb some of it, but I have stayed close to Essie these past weeks and that has left me physically weakened. Avoiding the center of town, where fear has begun to pump through the community like blood in a thick vein, has taken a toll.

I’ll need to amend that. I’m no good to Essie if I’m depleted.

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