Filigree Rings and Other Fae Things by R.M. Selg

Author:R.M. Selg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fairies, mystery, police, paranormal, urban fantasy, contemporary fantasy, Australia, Magic, murder, female protagonist, Fae, faerie, filigree, tree, wings
Publisher: R.M.Selg
Published: 2017-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

It was the middle of the day and the apartment block was quiet. It was long and low; only two stories high. Hers was on the top floor. It had a tiled roof and she was able to enter through a small gap between the tiles. Once inside the roof cavity, it was easy to enter the house via the bathroom ceiling fan. She did a quick circuit of the house in beetle size to make sure she was alone, and then returned to human size. She felt like a stranger in her own home.

She wandered from room to room, looking over all her possessions. Most of them meant absolutely nothing to her now.

In her bedroom, she opened her jewellery box, but the necklace wasn’t there. She hadn’t seen it for quite a while. There was another smaller jewellery box somewhere, and she vaguely remembered putting it in that before she moved house. It was probably still packed in one of the moving boxes stacked in the spare bedroom. She had been so busy getting ready for the arrival of the baby, that only the essentials had been unpacked.

She had been so happy when she had inherited this place from her aunt. It had been her escape from a marriage that seemed to turn sour very suddenly. But with hindsight, she could see that it had been sour from the start.

She hadn’t meant to get pregnant. A bout of vomiting had upset her contraception. But once she knew she was pregnant, she realised that she really did want to be a mother. Nothing was as important as this, and it even made her ready to stand up in the face of Philip’s insistence that he wanted no part of it. That had been an awakening. She realised that all their goals were his goals; all their dreams were his dreams. Her dreams had been gently pushed aside again and again. His view of how things should be had slowly smothered them; replaced them. She had thought her dreams weren’t important to her anymore but in reality, they were just lying dormant; not defeated.

She and Philip had discussed the baby several times over the weeks following the discovery of her pregnancy. Time and time again, he told her he was not interested in being a father. Did she realise just how much money went into raising a child to adulthood? Much better for her to get an abortion he told her. He had tried an outright statement of facts; he had tried an appeal to her future career prospects; he had tried highlighting how little time she would have to herself, and he had tried to scare her with horror stories about childbirth. Finally, he went too far, he threatened to have nothing to do with the child, and told her he would leave her if her body changed for the worse after the pregnancy.

She had been trying to work out how to fund her escape from him when her aunt Emily had died.

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