Secrets of Winter (Bound to the Fae Book 5) by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2021-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

17

Talia

It’s late evening by our second return to the palace from Uzziah’s castle. Stars are glinting into sight all across the darkening sky. It should be a beautiful sight, but I can’t appreciate it. My eyes are stinging, my heart thumping heavily in my chest.

That’s it, isn’t it? I say to Corwin, not wanting to discuss our failure—my failure—out loud with his coterie members too. They said they’d give us one more chance. They won’t let us see him again.

If we think of something we missed, they’d have to give us the opportunity to offer it, Corwin says, but his inner voice is as downcast as I feel.

Laoni said they’re going to send him to the summer realm settlement right away.

I’ll take you there if I think we have a chance.

I don’t know why the chances we had today didn’t get us anywhere. Maybe my tears were too forced, or I didn’t manage to produce enough of them? It isn’t like bleeding, where all it takes is a nick of my skin and the fluid springs out. Or was it some aspect of my interactions with the pregnant woman that none of us noticed that drove back the curse?

My blood can snap all of the Seelie out of their wildness. Surely whatever I can do for the Unseelie curse wouldn’t be restricted to just pregnant women—or women—or people who make me think of my mother—or any other random criteria?

But then, none of the magic that’s tying me to the fae makes sense to begin with, so who can say?

Just inside the palace, Corwin turns to Zelpha and Verik, who stayed with us and offered whatever suggestions they could through our second visit with Uzziah’s afflicted flock member. The arch-lord dips his head to Zelpha. “If you remember anything else from the other day that might serve us…”

“I’ll let you know right away, my lord,” she says, her usually energetic voice somber. She manages a stiff little smile, and the two of them head off.

“Are you hungry?” Corwin asks me.

I’ve had nibbles of things here and there throughout the afternoon—we thought maybe sharing a meal with the cursed young man might help somehow—and my stomach is too tight for the thought of eating more to appeal to me. I shake my head. “Just tired.” And frustrated with myself. And horrified for that fae man I haven’t been able to save. A stew of unpleasant emotion churns inside me.

If I were back in the place I still think of as my main home, with Sylas, Whitt, and August, right now I’d go to one of them and let them wrap me up in their arms. It wouldn’t make all the wrong things about today right, but it’d ease the pain inside me a little. None of them are here, though.

But my mate is. I look at Corwin, taking in the distress etched on his own face and the worries for his people overshadowing every other emotion I sense from him, and nothing in me balks.

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