Sweet Nothings by Daria Doshrelli

Author:Daria Doshrelli
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Tad landed in the library ahead of Claire and rubbed his hands together in anticipation of what came next. The pigeons he had left behind, Pip to keep an eye on the princess, Nan and Sev to prevent Avery from being devoured by the island’s native occupants. The rest of the crew was expendable given that they were entirely unnecessary to Lady Love’s business. That’s what he had told the pigeons. Keep the real clients safe so they could fall in love, and if the others got eaten, that was just the natural order of things. Claire’s face confirmed these words had hit their mark, and Tad had magicked himself away after enjoying that particular turn of her countenance.

“Prince Henry is right. The siren must be put to death,” he said as soon as Claire appeared beside him. It took a heap of concentration to keep the sunshine out of his voice.

As expected, dark clouds rolled across his little helper’s expression. “Then how will she get her happily ever after?”

“She won’t.” Tad put on an air of indifference. Tormenting the girl was such fun and much more satisfying than trading insults with Pip.

“Now you’ve lost me.” Claire set one hand on her hip and turned up the palm of the other. “I can’t imagine what’s going on in that head of yours.”

Tad climbed up a magic, invisible ladder all the way to the third shelf of a bookcase that had no scrolls at all, only rectangular volumes. Even though he couldn’t see the rungs, he had discovered the ladder accidentally while searching for love poems. Apparently, it manifest whenever he had need of it, then went away again. “I got the idea when I was contemplating Roselle’s beauty, her charm, her complex nature, her—”

“I understand, already. You think she’s perfect.”

“As I was saying…” He swiveled his head around and verified the color had risen in her dimpled cheeks. “You see, even though Roselle is my true love, I do recall one instance where her behavior toward me was less than lovely. But it was only because she hadn’t eaten her breakfast yet. The creature that emerged from her hideous, starved state was not beautiful, not like the real Roselle.” He paused so Claire had enough time to stew over his silence. “Therefore, the only conclusion is that the half-starved creature was not Roselle at all,” he said in a rush and turned back to the bookcase.

“You believe she was temporarily possessed by another creature?”

Tad shrugged, resisting the impulse to turn and look at her. He would just have to feel her rage with his imagination.

“Oh, well, then, how convenient for her that her meal was sufficient to cast the thing off!”

“It doesn’t matter to me if you approve of my Roselle. In a manner of speaking, she was possessed. But she’s my true love and it’s my duty to overlook any flaws that may suddenly manifest as a consequence of…Ha! I’ve found it.” He withdrew a book from the shelf and hopped down.

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