Reunion by Jennifer Fallon

Author:Jennifer Fallon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780732290894
Publisher: Voyager
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

It was impossible to see the ground from so high up, but Pete couldn't help but try. The sun was sinking rapidly in the west and any moment now the wall would start crackling with lightning and the rift would open.

Pete found himself anxious to step through. Even given its magic and its ninja-Leipreachán, its arrogant Faerie lords, psychically-linked twins, pixies and mermen, and gorgeous women who wielded magic and wore mummified body parts around their necks, somehow the other reality made more sense than this one. Although they'd returned to this reality in a different city, even allowing for the obvious differences between London and Dublin, the world Pete had left behind no longer existed.

It wasn't really a surprise to learn he no longer belonged here. He'd had a sneaking suspicion that would be the case. He knew enough about the psychology of the human mind to know that his new reality had become the norm a long time ago, and however much he might pine for the good old days, given what he knew now, given what he could do, what he had seen, he could never go back.

It was good to know that for certain. Interesting, too, that Logan had worked out the same thing with not nearly as much agonized soul-searching, which was probably why he hadn't felt the same need to prove what he felt to be the truth by coming here.

"It be a crazy place, this realm!"

Pete almost jumped out of his skin at the sudden exclamation. Plunkett had appeared behind him without warning, clutching a ruby-encrusted necklace in one hand and a slice of half chewed bacon in the other.

"What is that?"

"It be the rubies the Lord Rónán be after. I stole them for him, just like he asked."

"I meant that," he said, pointing at the bacon.

"That be me dinner."

"Where did you get it?"

"At the hotel where the actress be staying. People be leavin' trays out in the halls with treats on them."

Pete rolled his eyes. "They're not treats left out for Leipreachán," he explained. "They're leftovers from guest's room service."

"It be all the same to me," Plunkett replied testily.

"Where's Ren?"

"I don't be knowing that. When I left him he be talking to the actress."

Oh Christ, Pete thought, that's all we need. "She was there? In the hotel?"

"Aye. We had a grand plan, too. Lord Rónán be keeping her distracted while I open the safe and be appropriatin' the rubies." He held the necklace up for Pete to see. "It be a pretty little trinket, don't ye think?" He handed the necklace to Pete, far more interested in the bacon he'd found than Kiva Kavanaugh's priceless ruby and diamond necklace.

Pretty didn't begin to describe it. It was spectacular. If Ren's rather peculiar plan to soak the rubies in magic and then swallow them was going to work, he certainly had plenty to choose from. But the necklace and the desperate ploy to rescue his brother was the least of their problems right now.

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