Shadow (Touched by the Fae Book 2) by Jessica Lynch

Author:Jessica Lynch [Lynch, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-12T16:00:00+00:00

12

At the end of our fourth day together, when Carolina is getting ready to head out for the night, she starts to apologize.

I barely pay attention to it. Honestly, that’s nothing new. She has a tendency to “sorry” everything to death. I’ve gotten used to it.

I let it roll off my back, brushing the crumbs of my dinner from my lap before I stand up. I always walk her to the back door so that I can lock it behind her, then make myself a nest of the blanket and pillow she brought for me.

I don’t mind the alone time. It’s almost like light’s out at the asylum all over again. No television. No books. Just me and the shadows.

Nowadays, though, when I say shadows, I mean that.

Literally.

I haven’t told Carolina because I don’t want her getting her hopes up, but I’ve been practicing with pulling the shadows toward me. I haven’t gotten the nerve to try shade-walking again—and, thank God, I haven’t made any nighttime trips while I was sleeping—and I still don’t know how to consciously conjure a shadow thick enough for it to pass as a blanket.

I’m making some progress, though.

Hey. I’m the Shadow. I might as well figure out what that means since, apart from the limited lines scrawled on Carolina’s paper, no one has been able to tell me what I’m supposed to do about it.

Seems as if I’m gonna have more time to sit around and practice by myself when Carolina nervously clears her throat and makes an announcement.

“So, um, I should probably tell you. I’m not going to be able to come back for a couple of days.”

Okay. Now that’s different.

If Carolina thought she could get away with it, I’m sure she’d find a way to spend every waking second with me, pushing me toward coming up with a plan to defeat the Fae Queen. Between me losing my shit if she tried and her parents calling her every night to make sure she was on her way home, she can’t, but she makes up for it by spending all day here with me inside the Wilkes House.

“My parents are taking me out to our family’s lake house for a long weekend to see if it helps to get out of the city,” she adds, overcompensating by over-explaining. Like usual. “My dad’s worried about all the time I’ve been spending out of the house and my mom is convinced that, with the right remedy, they can fix me. I tried to tell them no, but they weren’t having it. I’ve got to go.”

“That’s okay.”

“I’d rather stay here.” I’m sure she would. She nibbles on her bottom lip, ducking her chin. “I don’t like leaving you here alone.”

“Hey, I promise, it’s gonna be okay. Don’t look so sad, Lina. I’m a big girl,” I tell her, trying to say it with a teasing tone so that she doesn’t think I’m being ungrateful. “I don’t need a babysitter. I’ll be fine for a couple of days.

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