Earl and Fairy: Volume 5 [Parts 1 to 3] by Mizue Tani

Author:Mizue Tani
Language: eng
Format: epub

Lydia entered her office to find Nico leisurely sipping a cup of tea. The fairy cat was so keen on the luxury offerings served at the earl’s estate that he no longer deigned to drink the tea served at the Carltons’. She envied him for it. Fairies were free to do as they pleased, and no one would fault them.

Slipping past him, she sat down at her desk. The ring was, of course, still on her finger. She slump forward, supporting her chin with one hand.

“Now these are some rare stones indeed!” The coblynau’s voice sounded in her ear again.

“Those are sweets. Who on earth might you be?” Nico stared dubiously at the bearded fairy, who had appeared on the table.

“I am steward to the moonstone.” In other words, the coblynau would stick fast to Lydia as long as the ring stayed on her finger.

“Treat our guest with due respect, Nico,” she cautioned the cat.

He narrowed his eyes as though he would rather not and, as if trying to appease a small child, opened the glass jar and offered the other fairy the candies. “Here. These aren’t jewels. You eat them.”

“Why, thank you. I trust you are a friend to her ladyship?” The coblynau scooped up as many amber-colored candies as it could carry, then tucked them gingerly away in the pouch on its hip. The bag’s pocket was no bigger than a teaspoon, yet it somehow held several sweets with ease. Lydia wasn’t familiar with the details of fairy pockets, but they always seemed to be carrying items much larger than they were.

“Not so much a friend but a protector of sorts.”

“Of sorts” indeed.

The coblynau looked at Lydia. “Has something displeased you, my lady? The earl declared he would give you whatever your heart desires, whether that be diamonds or something else. He is clearly a very generous man.”

Boundless gifts did not a good marriage partner make.

“It’s diamonds ye’re after, is it?”

Go away.

The black-haired Kelpie had climbed in through the window. He constantly appeared at his own leisure. Thinking about it, he was the root of her troubles.

“Diamonds don’t suit ye. The grasses of Scotland were guid enough for ye afore. Aren’t ye gettin’ a wee bit ahead of yerself here in London?”

“There is hardly any grass here to speak of.”

Besides, she was too old for rolling around in the park. Such behavior would attract disapproving looks in the countryside too, of course, but Lydia tended to frolic with the fairies at the rath or the shamrock field beyond the wide plains. There was never anyone to witness her there.

“Ye really should reconsider marryin’ the earl. If ye’re wantin’ to stay in the human world a wee bit longer, ye should jist come back to Scotland. Then ye’ll realize ye’re better off comin’ back to the fairy world with us.”

He was being uncharacteristically compromising. The offer itself wasn’t that bad either. In Scotland, she could live in peace without fear of Edgar’s manipulation or getting dragged into the danger that shadowed the earl.

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