Reflected (Silver Series) by Held Rhiannon

Author:Held, Rhiannon [Held, Rhiannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2014-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

12

Felicia sniffed her wrists as she walked from where she’d parked her car in the neighborhood by the cupcake shop she’d suggested to Enrique as a place to meet. The perfume was much easier to bear now. She planned to explain it away as meant only for her pack, but she imagined he’d be much more suspicious if it was too strong for any Were to stand wearing.

When he’d suggested—or demanded—the meeting, he’d asked about a bakery, and while she thought it was odd for a shop to specialize so much, she liked the cupcake place’s frosting: not too sweet. Not that she planned to pay much attention to the food. The perfume should cover her scent enough that Enrique wouldn’t smell her resolve to work against him, and she was almost eager for this meeting. Once she discovered specifically what his plans were, she could start thwarting them.

Enrique met her outside the shop’s glass doors, a cupcake in one hand. He offered it. “I remembered how much you always loved my mother’s strawberry jam on your toast.”

Felicia’s voice tightened momentarily as she accepted the cupcake, vanilla with real strawberry pieces visible in the light pink icing and probably baked into the cake as well. She had loved that jam. She didn’t tend to think about that much, or about most of those childhood times. Even three years later she hadn’t figured out how to treasure them without them bringing up all the bad things that had made her leave Madrid.

And now Enrique was tainting them further, trying to use them against her. Damn him.

“Don’t even try the we-were-cubs-together stuff, cat.” Felicia frowned at the cupcake and considered dropping it on the sidewalk. Tantrums wouldn’t help, though, and it did smell good. She nibbled the edge.

Enrique snorted and his manner relaxed into something harder and more smug. He held out his arm, inviting her to walk along the sidewalk. He raised his eyebrows as she reluctantly fell into step beside him and he smelled her properly. “It’s to keep the others from realizing I’m lying about you.” She shoved his shoulder, hard. “So whatever it is you want from me, start talking. Fast.” Despite herself, thoughts of jam reminded her of an incident when they were young. It had been apricot jam she’d rubbed into his hair, not strawberry. She wanted to growl. Why? Why did Enrique have to turn out this way, someone who would use their shared past against her?

Enrique hooked a thumb into the top of the hip pocket that showed the shape of his phone, as if she needed the reminder of what he was blackmailing her with. He switched to Spanish, perhaps for the privacy. “We’re going to get Silver arrested and committed.”

Felicia stumbled a step over a tree-root crack in the sidewalk as the implications spread across her mind. She could see that working, all too well. Silver was crazy enough in Were terms; to a human she’d seem absolutely off the deep end.

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