The Magic King (The Dark Kings Book 3) by Jovee Winters

Author:Jovee Winters [Winters, Jovee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy romance, beauty and the beast, fairy tale romance, paranormal romance, rumpelstiltskin
Publisher: JoveeWintersPublishing
Published: 2017-10-01T18:30:00+00:00

THE NEXT MORNING, I stood upon the threshold of my family home, staring at the faces of the people I loved most in this world and the house that’d been my shelter from the storm for so long. I tried to ignore the aching in my breast for all that I was walking away from. I had good memories here. Great ones, even. Birthdays. Family nights. Long talks into the wee hours about boys, and love, and dreaming of my own happily-ever-after. Yes, there’d been secrets kept from me. But I could see the love and attention and devotion my parents and family had shown me all my life.

Briley’s cries caught my attention, and he hugged my waist before burying his face in my chest and begged that I remember him. “Don’t forget me, Shay. Don’t you ever forget me.”

My heart squeezed and I doubted myself all over again. Am I making the right choice? Is this the right decision? Going seemed vital, but leaving hurt so badly. I kissed the top of his dear head and inhaled his unique scent of shampoo and peanut butter, two scents that would forever remind me of him and of home. “I’ll never, ever forget you, Briley. How could I? You’re my best friend.”

He sniffed and looked up at me through tear-stained, bloodshot eyes. “Forever?” he asked in that dear, sweet voice of his that would remain forever young.

I gently brushed the blond mop of hair out of his eyes one last time. “For always,” I whispered, giving him a soft smile.

I would never have left him for anything less than the Dark One. But what had been done to Rumpelstiltskin and me meant that we had to see things through to the end. I didn’t have much faith that he’d forgive me for what I’d done to him two years before. All I knew was that our story couldn’t end that way.

I had to try.

I knuckled Briley’s tears up and kissed his soft cheek one last time. In this land of magic, Briley would forever remain young, in both body and mind. Like one of Peter Pan’s Lost Boys, my dear, sweet Briley would age no more. Leaning forward with my hands on his shoulders, I whispered, “I promise I will come back for you. Okay?”

He nodded. “Okay, Shay Shay.”

I smiled, though my heart hurt so badly. Leaving the people who I knew loved me dearly for some man who wanted nothing to do with me in this life was a cruel kind of torture for me.

I went back and forth between knowing I was making the right decision to questioning my motives and desires all over again. I was obsessed with making things right, but I couldn’t understand whether it was simply the magic making me feel that way, or if these all-consuming emotions were a remnant of things I’d once felt so deeply that they were everything.

With one final pat, I gently extricated myself from Briley’s arms and looked at my Papa.

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