The Keeper of The Kingdoms (Flyers Of The First Kingdom Book 2) by Eden Eaves

Author:Eden Eaves [Eaves, Eden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: www.EdenEaves.com
Published: 2024-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-FOUR

KIERA

Iknew the questions were coming the second the words slipped out of my mouth. I braced myself for the onslaught.

But after I watched the shock flash over his face, I suddenly came over all dizzy and took a step back to steady myself.

He was on me in the blink of an eye, the back of his hand against my neck.

“What?” I asked, my mind fuzzy.

“You don’t look well.” He held my chin and tilted my face up, looking into my eyes. “Let me go get your gran.”

I grabbed his arm before he could step away from me. “No, don’t trouble her.” I wouldn’t insult him and tell him he’d get lost trying to find her treehouse in the dark, but he would. Very few fae who didn’t grow up here ever became truly accustomed to the Forest Kingdom, and we liked it that way.

“But you’re unwell.” He put a hand on my waist, steadying my knees but sending a flash of heat through my stomach.

I shouldn’t like the worry creasing his brows, but it warmed me through. “I just need sleep, that’s all. It’s been a long day.” The anxiety which came with returning to my home an altogether different fae to the one who left had rode on my shoulders the entire flight up here. No matter how many times I told myself they couldn’t force me to marry Casimir, it still felt like an insurmountable obstacle I couldn’t move past. I hadn’t meant to hide it from him, but in the capital, it was a worry I could leave behind. It didn’t exist for me there and I hadn’t known how to talk to Jaxus about it. So now he was blindsided. Or maybe I was reading too much into that, too.

“Which way is your bedroom?” he asked.

I swayed on my feet, realizing my eyes had closed, the tiredness now crashing over me in waves. “We have to go up.”

His fingers tightened on my hip. “Up the stairs?”

“Yes,” I swallowed over and over past a dry mouth, trying to give him directions. “I, um—” I gasped as my feet swept out from under me, throwing my hands out to try to catch myself, grabbing Jaxus’ shirt.

Only I found myself in his arms.

“Up the stairs and then where?” he whispered close to my ear, already taking the stairs two at a time.

I wanted to protest, but I didn’t have the energy. “It’s the only room.” It occurred to me that Gran might have sensed my arrival with her strange woo-woo magic, but she wouldn’t have known I’d have a guest. “I have to make up the other bed,” I said, attempting to climb out of his arms to find some linens.

He cut me off. “Don’t you even start. You’re not doing anything else.”

My figure met the soft mattress, and I sunk into the pillowy top, which I knew Gran had come and stuffed with healing herbs for me. No wonder she’d been here before we arrived. It smelled soothing and familiar, and I smiled as Jaxus pulled the blankets up to my chin.

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