Magic Waking (Legends Reborn Book 1) by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780994875389
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2017-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

The backseat of Keevan’s red Toyota wasn’t the largest space I’ve ever been squeezed into. I’d taken the middle spot between Priya and Darton so I could see through the windshield while still having Darton within immediate reach, and while she was thin as a whip, I was so close to him that I felt every slight movement he made. The solid muscles in his arm pressed against mine. The thump of his pulse echoed through his body.

With my gloves on, I wasn’t too worried about accidental skin contact. The problem was more how much I wanted that contact purposefully.

Inside the boy I was becoming fond of in his own right, my king was stirring. It had been far too long since I’d spoken to him outside a memory, since I’d been able to look into his eyes and know he knew exactly who he was looking back at.

My mind darted to the last memory I had of his weight over me, caressing hands, and tangled sheets, some two lives past. A flush I really did not need to be dealing with right now flooded my skin. I bit my lip and focused on the map I’d brought up on my phone.

Keevan filled the car with the buoyant melodies of a classic pop radio station for the first couple hours of the drive. As we neared the state line, the reception started to break into static. He switched it off. The quiet that followed felt ominous. Apparently not just to me, because after a minute, he cleared his throat.

“So. Emma. I’m hoping I speak for us all when I say I’d really like a little more explanation about shadowy monsters that can rip through locker room benches, and how we’re going to make sure they don’t rip through us.”

My throat tightened. I’d known I was going to have to tell him and Izzy something. The truth—part of it, at least—was easiest. If they didn’t believe me, that was their problem.

“There are fae living in the world,” I said. “Some of them are a lot like us, like people, but most of them are more like animals, or even less conscious than that.”

“Fae,” Izzy repeated. “You mean fairies?”

“Not like something out of a Disney movie.” I rubbed the streaks of deadened flesh on my left forearm. “They’re just part of… another side of the world that people have mostly dismissed these days. Anyway, there are two kinds—light and dark. The light loves chaos and energy and the dark loves order and stillness, so they tend to be at odds. Although there are few enough left that they don’t get in each other’s way too often anymore.”

“Order versus chaos,” Keevan said. “It sounds like we should be on the dark’s side.”

I smiled thinly. “I wouldn’t recommend that. Life is chaos, and nothing is quite as orderly as deathly oblivion. So you can guess which direction each side likes to push the rest of us toward.”

A nervous giggle slipped from Izzy’s mouth. “Okay, in that case, I’ll vote for light.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.