Fae's Dark Prophecy: A Dark Stalker Fantasy Romance by Felicity West

Author:Felicity West [West, Felicity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven - Rhea

The wooden door of my quarters slammed a bit harder than I’d anticipated behind me. I wasn’t even sure what it was that had me so frustrated at the moment. It could have been the fact that I’d let Dante again bring me to the point of giving him every private part of me if he only asked for it. Or it could have been how close I’d come to getting them to trust me. I could see it in his eyes: He wanted to take me with him. Damn him for listening to his better judgment.

I ran my hands over my face to try and still the frustrated thoughts. When I opened my eyes, I noticed a small bundle tied with a string on my bed.

Stepping over to it, I found a stack of books that looked older than my great grandmother. I ran a finger over the rough leather binding, relishing the feeling of history against my skin. A bit of parchment stuck out from the front cover of one of the books. I pulled it to find a scrawling note written in handwriting I’d once admired in a tavern.

If you’d like to be more convincing, you could try actually learning something about the history of this war.

I frowned at the paper and balled it up. He was mocking me and my limited human knowledge. If he were in my world, he’d be just as ignorant.

I picked up the first text on the stack and read the title. The Coming of Humans, it read.

As frustrating as it was to know I was thought of as uneducated on a topic I’d spent my entire life studying, there wasn’t much more to do in this manor than read and bother the cooks for sweet cakes. I took the book to the bench by the window overlooking the city, curled my legs to my chest, and opened it.

It was hours later when a knock at the door startled me from my reading. The text had been much more engaging than I’d anticipated, and while it clearly had a bias towards the fae, I gained some tidbits of information that may end up helping me in my journey.

The particular section I was now reading had left me sweating, my hands grasping the book so tightly the parchment was marked with little half-moons from my fingernails.

“Miss Rhea, may I come in?”

It was Kiya peeking her blue-haired head around the door. I cleared my throat and nodded, putting the text onto my lap.

“Some light reading?” she asked, eyeing the stack of books on the bed as she came to sit beside me on the bench.

I nodded again, still trying to clear the dryness from my throat in order to speak. She frowned at me and plucked the book from my lap, her amber eyes skimming the words until they widened, focusing back on me.

“I imagine this information might be hard to digest, judging by your pallor.”

Hard to digest? I had just

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