Merry Gentry 6 - A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2008-10-28T20:29:42+00:00

"We began the bargaining with what would be done and by whom," Ash said, "but she will not allow harm to come to her body. She only wishes to do harm to others."

"She actually tried to bargain that she would torture the two of you during sex?" I asked.

"Yes." Holly almost shouted it.

"She did not know that it was the gravest of insults to offer that to you," I said.

"But you knew," Ash said.

I nodded. "I visited the goblin court many times over my childhood. It was one of the few courts in faerie where my father felt that it was safe to bring me as a child."

"He would not have allowed you inside the Seelie Court," Ash said.

"No," I said.

"The goblins are not tamer than the sidhe," Holly said, his anger flaring again.

"No, but the goblins are honorable and do not break their rules," I said.

"Is it true that the queen tried to kill you when you were a child?" Ash asked. I nodded again. "It is."

"So you were truly safer here with us than with your own kind," Ash said.

"With the goblins and with the sluagh."

Holly laughed, a harsh, unpleasant sound. "You were safer with us, and with the nightmares of faerie than with the pretty sidhe. I find that hard to believe."

"The sluagh, like the goblins, have laws and rules and they abide by them. My father knew your ways and taught those ways to me. It is why we are here speaking today."

"You have bargained most carefully, Princess," Ash said, and there was no lust when he said it, though it was sex we'd been bargaining over. No, there was respect in his face, in his eyes. I'd earned that respect.

"I am not surprised to see Frost, for lately he is half of your constant companions, but it is not usually Rhys who holds your other hand," Ash said.

"Where is the Darkness?" Holly asked.

"Yes, Princess, he has become like your shadow," Ash said. "But today you have only Frost and Rhys by your side. And it is well known that Rhys does not like goblin flesh," Ash said. He made that last comment Page 90

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sound suggestive.

Rhys tensed beside me, one hand going to my shoulder, but otherwise he held his temper. Did they know that we had been attacked? If they did know, would they see it as an insult if we didn't tell them? The goblins were our allies, but not our friends.

"If the goblins are your allies," Ash said, "then should you have secrets from them?" They knew. I made my decision. "Is the rumor mill traveling so fast in faerie?"

"There are those among the goblins who watch the human news. They saw the Darkness in a wheelchair coming out of a human hospital. We did not see it, so gave it no credit, but now he is missing from your side. My brother and I ask again, where is your Darkness?"

"He is healing."

"But injured," Ash said.

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