So Fell Are the Fae: A Romantic Fae Fantasy (Through the Wall Book 1) by Kat Keenan

Author:Kat Keenan [Keenan, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Roots Media
Published: 2023-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Kir

My watch was nearly over, though I was tempted to spell Dain to continue sleeping. He’d do his job, but his fear would make the watch hard on him. But that wasn’t the entire truth. I wouldn’t be able to sleep. Just like Innara, my mind spun, and sleep would be hard to find.

Why couldn’t I help myself? Forget that she was my mate. I genuinely found myself liking her. She had a combination of vulnerability and backbone. All that laced with humor and a nice dose of snark. I had teased her—flirted, truly. She had stolen the air from my lungs when she suggested ordering me about.

And she knew of the bond the bargain created. Thankfully, that was the one she saw. But I suspected it existed so strongly due to our mate bond. Bargains tended to bring it out more, another way to tether. And if a tether already existed, the bargain would act as reinforcement.

Dain rolled over. I never knew how he did it. An internal clock or something, but it never failed.

“My turn,” he said as he sat up and gripped his sword that lay next to him.

Innara was still next to me. I had gotten up and moved down the tunnel a few times, but I had always come back to the spot where I had been. We couldn’t touch, but the nearness was pleasant.

Dain moved to where she had been across from me to start. He said nothing about how she had moved. Smart of him. Maybe he sensed how on edge I was.

With my sword near, I closed my eyes. I hadn’t drifted to my mental place since that night when Innara had met me there. Fear kept me away. At least that was what I told myself. Having a mate upended my life. Keeping my mate would upend it more. Or completely end it.

But now, I needed it to still my mind.

I quickly found my black room, picturing my living room and the roaring fire, and they appeared. I sprawled out on the couch, where Innara and Clove had sat not long after I’d found out she was my mate. But I didn’t want to think of Innara. I needed a distraction, something to cool my heels, remind me why I held her at arm’s length.

So I went back to a time when Violet had been in the room with me.

She stood in the archway to the kitchen, a glass of water in her hand. Her flirty dress fell off her shoulder, and her red hair flowed loosely down her back. She was sensual with a note of wild woman to her, but now I knew how black her heart was.

How hadn’t I seen through the ruse? Embarrassment threatened to throw me out of the vision-memory completely. How had I not suspected? How had I not seen that Gaelin threw someone who fulfilled my type right at me?

Violet smiled and padded barefoot across the lush carpet as I lay on the couch.

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