Monster Hall Pass by Bru Baker

Author:Bru Baker [Baker, Bru]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance
ISBN: 978-1-64108-587-8
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2023-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“I thought we were meeting with the sprite elders, not just one person.”

Hugh would have smacked him if it wouldn’t have been disrespectful to the sprite leaning against the large tumble dryer a few feet away.

“We are. Sprites share a collective consciousness. Like water, it flows through them, connecting them. So meeting with one is meeting with them all.”

“Why are we meeting here out in the open instead of at their court?”

The laundromat the sprites operated from was hardly out in the open. The windows were shuttered, and the place hadn’t been a functioning laundromat for years. He wasn’t sure how the sprites had come to use it as their terrestrial base of operations, but he bet the large drains that led to the lake were the reason they’d chosen it.

“Their court is underwater,” he hissed back. “Now shut up.”

The sprite pushed off the dryer and walked toward them. She looked like a middle-aged woman, but Hugh could see she was much older than that from her aura. It rippled and flowed with her energies and those of the rest of the elders. It was beyond intimidating.

She stopped in front of them, and Hugh bowed, pleased when Rykoff followed his lead without prompting.

“Rykoff of Harlow,” the sprite said, greeting the fae. “Prince of the summer court. Your presence is an honor to us.”

Hugh nearly swallowed his tongue. Rykoff was a prince? What the fuck?

The news utterly rocked Hugh, but this wasn’t the time or the place to discuss it. He shook his head when Rykoff opened his mouth.

Rykoff was a fairy prince. Jesus.

The missing prince he was here looking for must be his brother. His hatred for Ambrose and his refusal to give up his search suddenly made a lot more sense.

“The honor is ours,” Hugh replied after he’d found his voice again. “Thank you for granting us an audience.”

The sprite inclined her head in acknowledgment and turned to Rykoff.

“Speak.”

“We come seeking information about the rogue fae Ambrose of Wynne. We believe he seeks to trade with you.”

“This is true,” the sprite said. “We are not the first he has appealed to in his quest for his prize. No one has been willing to help him.”

“And will you?”

Hugh flinched at the brusqueness of Rykoff’s question, but the sprite did not seem to take offense.

“We will not. We have the information the traitor seeks, but the cost is too great. Meddling in this affair will start a war not only within the fae courts but also with the supernatural world.”

“How do we stop him?”

“We cannot answer that. Our neutrality holds the supernatural world together, and we must not risk it.”

Rykoff shifted his weight impatiently, and Hugh put a cautioning hand on his arm. They had to tread carefully here. The sprites were as fickle as the water they served, and the more they learned about Ambrose the worse Hugh’s gut felt about it. They couldn’t risk angering the sprites.

Rykoff ignored him. “But isn’t refusing to help him choosing a side?”

The sprite regarded him coolly but merely shrugged.

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