The Raven Thief (The Wild Rites Saga - Book 5) by Anna McIlwraith

Author:Anna McIlwraith [McIlwraith, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-27T07:00:00+00:00

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Felani went into full on Mother Hen mode and Emma ended up in one of the cars with Red driving, Fern riding shotgun, and ten maidens crammed into the back with her and Alexi. Since she was still shaking from the Pledge and from other, less metaphysical things, it was comforting rather than claustrophobia inducing.

With her head on Alexi’s shoulder, Felani tucked against her other side and maidens draped over their legs and laps, Emma promptly fell asleep.

She woke up to Felani’s soft, insistent voice. She was in her hotel room, on the bed. The instant she opened her mouth to ask what time it was and how she got there, the taste of copper and meat bloomed on her tongue, and she grimaced and launched herself off the mattress.

Felani’s eyes were huge. “Toothbrush,” Emma managed to say without throwing up.

“Come,” Felani said with an authoritative nod.

The bathroom was already steamy, the tub full and swirling with scented bubbles. Emma rinsed, brushed, and rinsed and brushed again, then drank straight from the faucet and used the toilet before even thinking about a soak, even though she badly needed it; she was cold and shivering, and aching all over in ways that had nothing to do with magic or injuries. That was why she kept her mental shields nice and tight. If Fern or Alexi wanted to get through to her, they could — she had the experience now to shut them out without locking them out, although Fern was the only one she could block completely — but she needed to process on her own.

She needed to grieve, on her own. Both for what she’d gotten to have with Red — and wouldn’t ever again — and for something else that felt so weird and selfish and fucked up she didn’t even know where to start with it. She couldn’t even think about it until she’d stripped off and lowered herself into the exquisitely hot water, letting it hold her, letting it keep her afloat so she no longer had to prop herself up. Her hair drifted around her like seaweed, filling the tub; she’d need to wash it properly after, because the delicious smelling bath suds were no doubt turning it into a sticky, tangled mess, but since Felani would need to cut at least a foot off the ends to make it manageable, Emma didn’t care.

Fern had slept with Tarissa. Sure, he’d also slept with Ricky, but Ricky hadn’t been crushing on Fern for months like Tarissa had. Ricky wasn’t interested, he’d just been there.

It wasn’t the jealousy. She could handle the jealousy. The Enam-Vesh bond made her jealous, it just did, because despite all her best conscious intentions, the bond made her feel deep down that he was hers.

Nope, that wasn’t the problem. The real problem was how cheated she felt.

She sat up in the water, gravity and her hair dragging at her, and scrunched her eyes shut against the truth: Fern wouldn’t go through his final

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