Sovereign Hope by Frankie Rose

Author:Frankie Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: paranormal romance, young adult, young adult romance, young adult paranormal romance, young adult series

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I drew a deep breath as I stood on the steps of Gatti’s Charing Cross music hall. I was a child the last time I’d come here. There were always white-eyed musical Kaffirs at Gatti’s Under The Arches, as well as sword swallowers and shipwrecked sailors, but me and Jamie had loved the tightrope dancers and the performing animals best of all. Despite being a player’s theater, after a certain time of night the proprietors always pushed back the furniture, banishing their extraordinary performers to make way for dancing and music.

Now, faced with the familiar, half-remembered façade of the Villiers Street building, I suddenly suspected that this wasn’t such a good idea. But the sight of Jamie, happy and smiling, had scrambled my insides into a nervous mess. I had to do something to take my mind off my scattered thoughts. The box inside my head where I’d locked away all the guilt and pain and regret associated with Jamie’s death rattled ferociously, demanding attention, and I was too apprehensive to even acknowledge it. If I did, who knew what would happen. It wouldn’t be pretty, that was for sure.

Farley was an inch behind me, almost as close as my shadow. I could sense her willowy frame pressed at my back. As always when I was close to her, my heart stuttered in that awkward, ridiculous way.

She cleared her throat nervously. “I’m really not sure about this, Daniel.”

“Don’t be such a coward.” I looked back over my shoulder, seeing her staring up at me, her eyes wide and intimidated. The sight of her in that dress, her hair piled artistically up on her head with just a few stray strands resting gently against the porcelain skin of her neck, had done something terrible to me. I could barely breathe when I’d first seen her. Coming back here was always hard, but with Farley at my side it was almost even crueler. A reminder of a life, a perfect life, I could have had if things were different. If I hadn’t nearly died. If Farley had been born earlier. If the Quorum wasn’t watching my every step. A sharp frustration worked its way into my chest, and I shoved it aside, locked it out cold. It was no good dreaming in ifs.

“You can’t tell me you’ve never been dancing before.”

“Of course I have,” she grumbled, “but there aren’t any set steps. You just sort of… move.”

I hid the ghost of a smile, making sure I looked nonchalant when I faced her again. “Don’t worry. I’ll let you stand on my feet. You can just move with me.”

“My grandfather used to do that with me when I was a kid. I think I’m a little too big these days.”

There was a fixed, defiant look on her that made me want to reach down and take her face in my hands, kiss her for all her endearing stubbornness, but instead I kept my face neutral. “Suit yourself.”

I started up the steps towards Gatti’s.

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