To Catch a Queen by Shanna Swendson

Author:Shanna Swendson [Swendson, Shanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC009010 FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary; FIC044000 FICTION / Contemporary Women; FIC010000 FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Publisher: NLA Digital LLC
Published: 2015-02-10T05:00:00+00:00

Twenty-nine

Outside the Impostor’s Palace

A Moment Later

“Why would you want to go into the palace?” Amelia asked.

“I imagine that’s where the action will be,” Emily replied.

“She’s under a compulsion,” Eamon said firmly.

“A compulsion?” Athena said with a horrified gasp. “What kind?”

“The same thing that was happening to her earlier, when she felt compelled to enter the Realm,” Eamon said.

“This was why you were behaving oddly?” Amelia asked.

“Yes, but I got better,” Emily insisted. “It went away entirely. Until now. But think about it: Once the queen comes out here, it’s a done deal. She’s been crowned. She’ll just be having the Buckingham Palace balcony moment out here. We need to get inside. They seemed to be picking people to go into the VIP area. I’d bet my compulsion would get us on the guest list. Someone must want me in there.”

“Which is a very good reason for you not to go in there,” Amelia insisted. “They may want to use you in some way. Remember how Maeve used you against your sister?”

“How do you plan to stop this impostor from out here?”

“That is your sister’s job.”

Athena glanced around. “Funny, we haven’t heard from Sophie in a while.”

“I’m sure she’s okay,” Emily said. “And she’d need us to get in position. Maybe that’s where this compulsion comes from.”

“It doesn’t.” Eamon snapped. “This has no trace of Sophie in it.”

Emily noticed one of the guards moving through the crowd nearby, picking out people, presumably to go into the palace. She moved away from the group and put herself in the guard’s path. His gaze flicked past her, then he stopped and turned. “You,” he said. “With me.”

Putting on her best Sophie impression and dialing her charm up to maximum, she said, “Can my friends come, too? I don’t want to leave them.”

“Bring them along,” he said, clearly too busy to be bothered.

Emily gestured to the others. “Come on!” When they hesitated, she said, “I don’t think he’s going to let me back out, and you don’t want me going in there alone, do you?”

Eamon was the first to join her, dragging a reluctant Beau. The sisters looked at each other, shrugged, and came along.

Emily’s heart pounded with anticipation, and it swelled with the joy of coming home at last as they approached the towering arched doors of the palace.

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