Queen of the Magnetland (The Elemental Phases Book 5) by Cassandra Gannon

Author:Cassandra Gannon [Gannon, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Star Turtle Publishing
Published: 2013-01-13T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

There is a great difference in opinion regarding the advisability of telling fairy

stories…. Those containing a fierce or horrible element must, of course, be

promptly ruled out.

Kate Douglas Wiggin- “Children's Rights and Others”

The good news was Mara had rectified the most important regret written on her bucket list. Chason was in love with her.

The bad news was, he was in love with a dead her.

Some porcelain doll version of the untouched Magnet Queen, who wore tulle dresses and shined like the goddamn sun. Chason was building shrines in that bitch’s honor and refusing to even kiss Mara, because it was disloyal to her perfect fucking highness.

Mara ground her teeth together.

No wonder Chason was refusing to call her by name. It didn’t even matter to him that she had one. He wanted his Match and Mara had never been quite good enough at that role. Oh, Chason had always been devoted and kind. But he would have been devoted and kind to any Match Gaia had given him. Mara herself was completely incidental to his life. He wanted a pristine ideal, not a real person.

And Mara had tried to be that for him --for everyone-- but it hadn’t been enough. Now, he’d reinvented her in that tomb and he finally had what he’d always wanted: A perfect queen. Someone who made no mistakes and didn’t interrupt his orderly schedule. He and his flawless corpse bride were completely happy without her, living out their own doomed Bronte novel.

Mara hated Bronte novels.

The fact that Chason said he loved a dead woman, after seventy years of not saying it to her, was enraging. Well, he had said it to Mara before, in perfunctory, expected, wholly civilized ways. But, he never meant it. Chason had never just looked at her and said it with absolute conviction. Not the way he just did for his lost Match.

And Mara couldn’t go back to trying to be that woman for him.

She didn’t even remember how. Being dead and losing so much had changed her on a level even she didn’t fully understand, yet. A sudden and permanent shift had occurred in the tectonic plates of her very being and the landscape could never return to what it was before.

But, since she wasn’t going anywhere, he was just going to have to get used to it.

Whether he liked it or not, Mara was Queen of the Magnetland and she was fighting for everything that was hers.

Including her Match.

Chason may never have chosen her, but Mara was choosing him. This man belonged to her and she wasn’t going to just give him up to the woman in the tomb. Especially not when he’d kissed her earlier the way he’d never kissed the old Mara. With a hot and messy passion that had left both of them panting and wanting more.

Maybe it was the Light Phase in her, but Mara wanted that wildness. She always had. She wanted him to lose control and not be able to resist her, no matter what the rules or conventions or obstacles between them.

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