Six For Gold (Black Crow Chronicles Book 6) by Jen Pretty

Author:Jen Pretty [Pretty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-18T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

"How is that possible?" Oban asked. "She died. She had to have died, or she would have set me free."

Falcor looked as confused as I was.

"How could she abandon me for so long?"

Oban rose to his feet, looked around the room, and then sat back down as if he couldn't figure out what to do. There was no one to fight and nowhere to run. His anger and confusion seemed to grow the longer he thought about what had happened to him.

"Why wouldn't she bring me back?" he asked Falcor.

"I don't know. Perhaps the book fell in the hands of the vampires and was never found."

"Where did you find it?" he asked, seeming to accept that Falcor's explanation could very well be right.

"In the vampire’s library," I replied.

"So, it’s true. They stole me from my mother."

"They probably didn't know," I replied.

Pete spoke up then. "I had no idea that witches could hold people in books. I bet nobody did. It sounds crazy."

"So, she is gone?" he asked, turning his attention back to Falcor.

"I'm sorry."

"What of my father?"

"Farand?" Falcor asked.

"No, his name was Edvard."

Oh shit. I could not have seen that coming. There was no way in hell that anyone knew that Falcor's uncle had a child with his mother. It was the kind of family secret that went to the grave with everyone, the deep dark kind of secret.

"Excuse me," Falcor said. "I need to make a phone call."

We watched him grab his coat and walk out the front door. Then I turned my gaze back to the young man who looked even more confused than a moment ago.

"Did I say something wrong?"

I shook my head. "No." I wanted to say more, but it was family business. I wasn't going to put my foot in it. Falcor could tell the boy, his brother, about the family lines.

“Is my father still alive?”

I nodded. “I think Falcor is going to call him now.”

He bit his lip and nodded.

I found it strange that I felt such a connection to the boy, but I had claimed his brother and his father as my own, that sort of made him mine by extension. I would need to look into Francis's acquisition of the book the boy was gripping. His fingertips were white where they gripped the pages, and I worried he would rip it, but it seemed to be the only thing holding Oban down, so I didn't mention it.

"So, are you hungry?" I asked, trying to change the charged feeling of the room. Oban shook his head, and his eyes crossed to the vampires.

"They aren't going to hurt you," I said. "They are part of my team."

"Do you control them?" he asked.

"Not really. They just kind of do whatever."

"That's unsafe. Particularly around your warlo--" He stopped mid-word and looked at me, then back to the door Falcor had walked through. "He's my brother."

I nodded.

"I always wanted a brother."

"Well, now, you have one. And a whole family, if you want it. My brother is younger than you, but he is really fun.

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