Curses Once Spoken by Carly Drake

Author:Carly Drake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd

Chapter 17

Liam

The largest grin that had crossed my face in days threatened to split my skull and I cared not. The sounds of Padraic’s pounding and curses from behind the pantry door made me giddy, and I was relieved to see that Evelyn’s smile matched my own as she flicked her fingers toward the door, muttering another spell in that strange language of hers.

As the last words fell from her lips, all was silent and she turned toward the table by which we stood once more to unroll the large parchment she had in her hands.

‘Was that really necessary?’ Maeve eyed us both, her hands on her plump hips as though we were two wayward children in her charge.

‘Yes.’ Evelyn smirked. ‘It was. You need to remember, Maeve, who we are and who he is —’

‘He’s fae, I know,’ she groaned, helping us set candles over the edges of the parchment to hold it in place. ‘I know I can’t trust him, just as I can’t trust you.’

‘Exactly,’ Evelyn sighed, as though exhausted by the whole conversation and the girl. ‘As soon as Padraic finds out that the Queen is held in your mother’s necklace, he will kill you, and destroy it.’

‘Shhhhhh!’ Both of our heads snapped up to see Maeve’s face creased with worry as a finger was placed against her puckered lips. ‘He’ll hear you!’

‘No, he shall not; I placed a spell on him. Trust me.’ The right corner of Evie’s lips quirked up in a half smile. ‘He will not be able to understand anything we are saying.’

‘Oh.’ Maeve’s shoulders slumped slightly.

‘So, Evelyn…’ I finished adjusting the last candle before placing my fists knuckle down on the table and surveying our work. ‘What is the plan? How are we going to find this chalice?’

Evelyn’s answer was a quick smirk before she closed her eyes, holding her hands out over the parchment in front of us that contained a very detailed map of the country we currently inhabited. I listened closely to her words; this time there was little distraction around us and she was speaking loud enough for even a human to hear.

I still could not understand the words but several sounded very similar to our own ancient fae language, one that we no longer spoke on a daily basis but one that I had to study as a child. I remember at first hating the complicated rhythms and the many twisting, scraping steps my tongue had to take to form the phrases, but the more I learned of the language the more I grew to love it for its beauty and complexity.

By the time Evelyn ended her chant, I was almost certain I could understand about half of what she had said and was unsurprised to see tiny pinpricks of light now dancing above the candles’ flames, hovering in the air. Evie raised her hands before her and gathered the light together into a cluster before speaking once more to it and blowing it from her palms where it had come to rest.

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