Pan's Delight: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel: (Poppy's Potions) (Haven Hollow Book 23) by H.P. Mallory & J.R. Rain

Author:H.P. Mallory & J.R. Rain [Mallory, H.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rain Press
Published: 2022-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Fox Aspen arrived in Haven Hollow the next night.

That was a relief.

Bea had been worried that it might take a long time to get him here, what with it being Autumn and Fox having court duties he needed to oversee for the season. I wasn’t sure if the fact that he’d shown up so promptly was a good thing or a bad thing, though. If he came so quickly because he realized this was a serious problem and wanted to help us get to the bottom of it, then awesome. But if he’d appeared so fast because he just wanted to force Taliyah to talk to him, then we had a whole new vat of problems on our hands that I wasn’t looking forward to sorting through at all.

Because I had enough problems of my own.

I still had faith in the kind of man Fox was, so I was still holding out hope that he was here to help as best he could, and until I heard otherwise, then I’d keep believing.

I probably would have been more relieved to see Fox, if I hadn’t walked into Hallowed Homes for the Council meeting, only to find him already having a fight with Taliyah in the lobby. And, as far as I could tell, everyone who worked here had already gone home so we’d have the place to ourselves. From the looks of it, I was the first to arrive for the meeting. As to where Fifi was? That was anyone’s guess.

I froze in the doorway, overwhelmed and feeling incredibly awkward. The amount of energy in the room was dizzying, like getting a hit of pure oxygen, and it made my head swim. There was also frost forming on the walls, which was probably not a good sign, and would also upset Fifi. But magic aside, the social embarrassment of walking in on a couple fighting was staggering. And, somehow, it was actually more awkward than that, because they weren’t even a couple. Though they were betrothed. Or maybe not? Taliyah had seemed pretty firm on her ‘never going to happen’ stance where their marriage was concerned.

Fox looked different from what I remembered, maybe more fae in his appearance, which probably had something to do with this being his court’s season. The lines of his face seemed sharper, the gold of his eyes more brilliant, and there was the fact that the tips of his ears now ended in a graceful point, like a leaf tip. His hair was loose, not pulled back into a braid like he usually wore it, and among the strands of auburn were gold and nut brown, and even the brilliant scarlet of maple leaves. He might have looked a little different, but he was still just as stunningly attractive.

Yet, strangely, even though I could recognize that he was a very attractive man, he didn’t have the same reaction on me that Andre did. There was no quickening of my pulse, no breathlessness, no fireworks in my heart.

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