Fallen Queen (Lost Fae Book 2) by May Dawson

Author:May Dawson [Dawson, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

The air between Faer and myself seemed to ripple. One second, I could see Faer and his grip on Tiron; the next, the Shadow Man was between us. His minions were suddenly everywhere, like a dozen shadows except they were moving without being cast.

“You ran from me, daughter of Herrick,” the Shadow Man growled.

“Couldn’t help myself. You’ve got bad breath,” I retorted. I glanced at Az from the corner of my eye, as if he’d have the answer.

The look Azrael gave me in return suggested we were truly fucked: on a ship that was steadily bearing away from the shore, facing Faer, Raile, and the damned Shadow Man himself.

“As far as I can tell,” I said, stalling for time as the Shadow Man took a step toward me. I still had no weapon. “There are two potentially unworthy heirs on deck at the moment. I don’t know what I did to be so special.”

The Shadow Man paused, his head sweeping back and forth as if he were searching. “I see no other usurpers intent on claiming a throne that isn’t theirs.”

“My brother is my twin,” I said, “and he doesn’t have any more claim on the throne than I do.”

“I see only the king of summer here,” the Shadow Man promised me.

Well, fuck diplomacy, then. I formed the ball of light the same way I had before, my fingers tingling with heat. I launched it at him, and the light flared across the boat, illuminating the world around us like a flash of lightning.

The shadow knights all rippled and disappeared as the light washed over them.

But the Shadow Man threw up a shield that seemed to have come from nowhere. The light bounced off the shield and then vanished, leaving all of us blinking in the depth of night once more.

“He’s got a shield now,” Azrael observed helpfully, through gritted teeth.

“Yes, I see that,” I said. “I hate when my enemies aren’t idiots.”

I didn’t have a weapon, but I shifted into a fighting stance anyway. First we had to get Tiron away from Faer safely; that was what mattered most. Then I’d deal with the Shadow Man.

Something would come to me along the way, I was sure. It always did. And no matter how bad the odds looked, Duncan, Az and Tiron were here with me too. We’d come up with something.

The Shadow Man raised his hand, and the shield disappeared. His enormous long sword—a broadsword so huge that no one should be able to carry it—rippled into existence, as if he was drawing it out of the night sky.

“Weird,” I said. “You really don’t give off that big-sword energy.”

“Would you please finally shut her up?” Faer demanded. He glanced at Raile, and I knew what he was going to do next just from the way his grip tightened on the slick hilt of the knife.

Before he could even speak, I hurled myself to the deck with all my momentum, landed hard on my ass, and slid through the Shadow Man’s legs.

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