The Wild Curse (Faerie Sworn Book 2) by Nieto Ron C

Author:Nieto, Ron C. [Nieto, Ron C.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

C H A P T E R XVIII

There wasn’t a morning in a world where time held no meaning, there was no dawn to break the day, but still the quality of light changed, became more intense as it teased Lily’s closed eyelids as softly as velvet.

With a quite murmur, she stretched and burrowed into her pillow, unable to retain her dreamless sleep but trying anyway. Her legs tangled in another set, longer and lither. Her pillow breathed deep, and the steady thump of a heart under her cheek lulled her.

She hadn’t moved an inch in her sleep, and neither had he.

“What do you say instead of ‘good morning?’” she asked, her voice hoarse and disused.

“Hello,” Troy said, a smirk hidden in his tone that served to dissipate any awkwardness that might have lingered from the sleeping arrangements.

“Hello.” Lily smiled and curled tighter into his side, daring to move the hand she had on him over his side, around to his back in a lazy hug. “Do we need to get up yet?”

“The Council does not require our presence, and it is likely it shall not for a while yet.” Troy didn’t comment on her wandering hand or sudden cuddliness, and Lily decided that was best. “I should advise you to waken regardless.”

“Why?” Catching herself, Lily clarified. “Why not for a while, and why should I start the day?”

“The other councilors were . . . surprised, shall we say? They should require some time to readjust their agendas, and an even longer while if they aim to discover and damage their opponents’. As for you, I should think you would want to invest the time in the library, since you were so loath to leave it last time.”

The library, where she could check books on faerie lore impossible to find anywhere in the mortal world, where there was true knowledge waiting for her, and where she might be able to figure out the next step of her plan.

No, that’s not true. I know what the next step is. Which didn’t make her look forward to it any more than if she were clueless.

Perhaps I’ll find an alternative. She caught her fingertips pressing into his back and forced her hand to relax. No alternative. Too late for that. Besides, why would I even want it? This plan is working, and it’s solid enough.

“You have convinced me,” she said, pushing against his chest and straightening up. “The books won’t get read by themselves, and I do need them.”

Disentangling herself from Troy, she slid—or stumbled, she guessed—off the bed and toward the vanity and its mirror. She still had on the silvery green dress. It had been rumpled, but once she readjusted it on her shoulders, making sure the cleavage was in its proper place, the rest of the gown managed to fall off her with the same dignity and elegance it had given her the first night. The glamour Hevana had added had disappeared, but it still smelled fresh and it still was unwrinkled.

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