King of the Fae: a Paranormal Romance by Ava Mason

Author:Ava Mason [Mason, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Kip

Every sound around me was muted except for the sound of my pounding heart. Heat buzzed over my skin, sparking and sizzling, lighting every pore on fire. Stryder and Harley were talking but I couldn’t stop thinking about that kiss. He said it was to break their tracking, but his lips on mine and the heat of his body pressed against me felt like so much more.

Something I… something I couldn’t quite put my finger on. But it seemed significant, in a strange way.

Like it bound us together, in only a way that he and I would ever have.

Goosebumps spilled over my skin at the thought and I shivered.

“The Land of the Sidhe is overseen by courts. The Dawn, Day, Twilight, and Night are in the north.” The word ‘night’ snapped my attention back to him. “And the Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer are in the south, with the Blood Court in the middle. Each of these is ruled by their monarchs. Some are more powerful and influential than others. The Summer Queen has long desired more power for herself. She disagreed with how many divisions there are and believed there should only be one monarch for the entirety of the world, and regents for smaller realms. As time has passed and people have disagreed with her, insisting on things staying the same, she has become more aggressive. It has erupted into war. Right now, we’re the only thing between her forces invading the other Courts.”

I tried to listen as carefully as I could but the way my heart was still pounding was distracting. I took in small sips, trying to calm it. Stryder continued on, telling us more about his people and the world he came from, with Harley pointedly expressing her doubts.

I had to agree with her. It all still seemed so strange, so outside of the sphere of what I thought could be possible.

But, he sounded sincere. These weren’t the ramblings of someone disconnected from reality and he wasn’t making it up as he went. He rattled off the details and described the land with the same confidence and smooth flow that I would have when talking about Glendale or the bookshop.

I waited for some sort of dramatic inflection or for him to seem like he was trying to get a rise out of me with something he was saying. That was always a tell when a person was weaving a complex lie or over-exaggerating something for the purpose of convincing someone else. There was always the subtle eyebrow raised or the measured pause. It was meant to underscore something or test the impact of a detail they'd carefully planned out. There was none of that in what Stryder was saying to me. He was as casual describing the hidden dangers of the murky Swamp Realm and the beautiful nurturers of the forest as I'd expect someone talking about the cornfield down the street. Everything was clear and straightforward. Just basic, simple reality.

But it wasn't just the way he was talking about his world.

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