Fey Lovers (Come Love a Fey Collection) by Kaye Draper

Author:Kaye Draper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kaye Draper
Published: 2017-12-25T10:37:42+00:00

Chapter 15

It was the same bar, and yet it wasn’t. I was sure we had arrived here by the same means as last time, driven down the same roads, and entered the same creaky old door with the Good Neighbor Tavern sign—but it was a different world that greeted us. My eyes weren’t clouded by glamour and fey tricks.

The door swung open and we entered the dim interior of the bar. The layout was the same. Pool tables in the center, bar on one side of the room, booths and tables on the other. That was the only thing that hadn’t changed. I stepped closer to Leith, as some primal instinct told me that I was the only human in the room. The feeling of not belonging beat upon my skin like a physical force. Leith didn’t say anything, but he took my hand and gave it a squeeze. Everywhere I looked, I saw creatures I thought only existed in Hollywood. A tall man with wispy hair and long arms brushed into me in passing. When I looked up, he winked and smiled at me with a mouthful of long, pointed teeth. I kept my gaze glued to the floor and didn’t look around again for quite a while.

Leith led the way to the bar, pulling me through the crowded room in his wake. The bartender turned to him with a weary expression. She was about my height, and could have easily passed for human if it weren’t for the stubby, feathered wings that protruded from her back.

“I would like to speak with Mair. Will you tell her The Kelpie is here?” His voice was friendly, but I don’t think it was his manners that caused her to suddenly flush a pretty purple color and break into a flirty smile.

She nodded her head toward a table at the back of the bar and Leith towed me in that direction. A stooped, wrinkled old woman sat there alone, quietly watching the patrons as she munched on a basket of fries and sipped a bottle of Killian’s. The image was so incongruous to the rest of the atmosphere that I tittered nervously to myself. Leith shot me an impatient look over his shoulder and I schooled myself into seriousness. He slipped into the battered wooden chair next to the old woman and I sat on his other side.

“Mair,” he said in greeting. I stared at the old woman in surprise and she cackled at me, the folds of her face creasing into deep valleys. This was Mair, the voluptuous young beauty from before? I nodded a greeting and she winked at me. Leith gave me a half smile and returned his attention to his friend. “May we speak more freely this time?”

She nodded. “I apologize for the cold greeting last time. Adhene’s cronies were near.” She shrugged. “I sense no Unseelie here tonight.”

Leith nodded. “Mair,” he took her wizened hand familiarly, and I raised an eyebrow. “Darling mother, can you tell me

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