The Lost Queen (Complete Series) by Angel Lawson

Author:Angel Lawson [Lawson, Angel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Nadya

Grace maneuvered the car through the Nomad parking lot toward the back hangar like I directed. We had no choice but to use the portal—the trick was doing it without getting caught.

“How did you enter last time?”

“Well, you know how your gift relies on the ability to seek the truth from people? How you can read the past?”

“I guess so.” She didn’t need to know how I was still working it out.

“I’m skilled in the use of travel magic. The portal is able to monitor most Sidhe coming in and out, but well…” She stood and from her back unfurled a set of beautiful blue wings.

“Oh my god. You have wings.” I reached forward to touch them but she shied away.

“I’m a fairy,” she said with a shrug. “Some of us actually have wings.”

I glanced over my shoulder. “Do I?”

“No.”

“Huh.” I was unreasonably bummed by this. “So you can just fly through?”

“With a little spell work, yes.” Without warning, her wings retracted and disappeared. I peered around her shoulder but saw nothing but the smooth lines of her back. “You’re aware that your people monitor the portal, right?”

“Yes, my mother’s people.”

“Well, my people—those of us with wings, used to be the ones that assisted transport. In modern times, when the humans became prevalent in this area, we were no longer able to fly freely from one side to the other. Human transportation took over and everything changed.”

“Like Liam and his plane?” I interrupted.

“Yes, the Guard over took the system using modern machinery to reach the portal, and we were basically shut out.”

“That stinks.”

“It does.” She grabbed a bag from the car and we walked close behind the hangar—out of sight. “But just because times change doesn’t mean I don’t have my ways of beating the system. I just have to be sneakier about it.”

Trying to process the information, I asked, “So just to be clear, you’re going to fly us out of here. Like, you’re going to carry me.”

I saw her laugh, but the sound was muffled by the loud buzz of a plane taking off. I shaded my eyes and saw Mr. Johnson’s white and red plane lifting toward the sky. My father would wonder why I wasn’t at work—again. And Liam? Surely he would wake up soon. I absorbed a lot of his juice but he was strong. I had no guarantee on time. “Not exactly. Ever heard of fairy dust? Peter Pan?”

“You’ve got to be kidding,” I said, with zero trace of humor.

“Most things come with a speck of truth.”

Two months ago I would have thought this entire conversation was insane. I’d have been inside that airport reading my horoscope and planning what to make my father for dinner. Nothing new, maybe curious looks at Liam as he came in and grunted a hello. Instead, over the last 48 hours I’d danced and drunk my way through a bar, killed a Sidhe soldier sent to track me down by some crazy queen named Eleanor, and screwed up whatever legitimate relationship I had with Liam by going succubus on his ass.

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