Ruthless Fae King (Fate of the Fae Book 4) by Vera Rivers

Author:Vera Rivers [Rivers, Vera]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

17

HAZEL

“How was your night with Zita?” I asked my mom when we walked through the gardens I’d been working on.

Mom offered me a secretive smile. “It was good. We’re getting closer. I found an unexpected friend in her.”

“It seems like you found more in her than just a friend,” I pointed out.

She glanced at me, and I smiled.

“I’m happy for you, Mom. Whatever it is you and Zita will end up being, I just want you to be in a good space.”

Mom nodded and looked ahead. “I’m in a very good space.”

That was all I wanted for her.

“What about you?” she asked. “You don’t seem nearly as happy today as I thought you’d be.”

I shook my head. “I don’t know what’s going on between me and Erol. One moment, I think he likes me, and he wants to figure out what things can be between us—the power gets so strong, and there’s something there, I know there is. The next moment, he acts like he wants nothing to do with me. I don’t understand how it works.” I sighed. “You told me to follow my heart, but what do I do when my head gets in the way?”

“It’s a tough one. I’m sorry. Love and relationships are always difficult to navigate, whether you’re a teenager just coming into womanhood, or you’ve been around for half a millennium.”

She was right about that—it didn’t seem nearly as easy to figure things out with Erol as I’d thought it would be.

I didn’t understand why he’d pushed me away last night. The sexual tension between us had been intense, and I’d wanted him so badly. There had been no doubt that he’d wanted me, too. When he’d pushed me away, I’d wondered if it was because I’d told him I’d never been with a man before, but it couldn’t be about that. Our power had mixed together, creating something that couldn’t exist without things being just right between us. The magic wouldn’t respond the way it did when we were together if the union wasn’t right. Did Erol feel the same way about it?

What if it was right, but his Conjurite magic fought it, and he was just leading me on, playing games? It was the nature of Conjurite magic to be untrustworthy, to cause pain, to destroy.

“I don’t know how to keep seeing him as the person of light I see beneath all the darkness, and how to know if the darkness is too much. I’m terrified that it will override everything that’s good about him, and it will be tucked so far away, it won’t matter that it’s there. The way it used to be, before, when he kept us in the dungeon and treated us the way he did.”

I glanced at my mom after admitting my fear, willing her to give me an answer that would make me feel better.

“It’s good to guard your heart and not to jump into something without weighing all the facts. You’ve always had a good head on your shoulders, you’ve always looked at the world through a logical lens.

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