Silly Sealed Fates (Pixie Pink Book 3) by D.N. Hoxa

Author:D.N. Hoxa [Hoxa, D.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D.N. Hoxa
Published: 2022-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I walked out of the house together with my parents and brothers because I needed to see for myself that that man was leaving. My limbs were still numb but the hope gave me enough energy—he wasn’t going to cause trouble here. He was going to leave. He wasn’t going to hurt anyone.

And he didn’t.

I watched him together with everyone else as he hopped in the helicopter, the blades already spinning, that awful noise sending shivers down my back. We stayed there until the helicopter became just a small black dot in the blue sky, and everybody let go of their breath at the same time.

Everybody but me.

“C’mon, honey. Let’s get inside,” my mom said and grabbed me by the arm to guide me. I was thankful for it, too, because everybody was suddenly coming for me, asking me questions, demanding answers. My dad kept telling them to back off, but they didn’t care. They followed us all the way to the house and didn’t stop shouting questions—What was that about? Why would a high fae want to talk to you?!—until Alex closed the door and half the sound of them was muffled.

Mom went to lock the back door, too, probably afraid someone would just walk in the house without even knocking. Dad took me to sit on one of the couches in the living room. I barely felt anything, though. All my focus was on keeping my face neutral, the fear at bay, and to keep my family from worrying.

“Are you gonna talk or what?” Asher asked, sitting on the other side of the room next to Alex, both looking at me like I was about to reveal to them all the secrets of the universe.

“What did he want?” Alex went next. “C’mon, tell us. Is something going on?”

Mom came and sat down next to me, hiding her shaking hands between her thighs.

“Honey, it’s okay,” Dad said. “You can tell us.”

“A case,” I said, raising my chin. “High fae were interrogating some men at the ODP before I came here. They were torturing one of them. I pulled my gun and stopped them. My Chief sent me away for a while just so things could calm down. And he came to tell me that I was expected to apologize to the high fae I threatened—and I was going to have to continue the interrogation with them again.”

The lie flowed easily, each word so much simpler than anything else going on in my head.

My family was silent for a whole minute. Would they believe me?

I wasn’t worried. If they didn’t, I wasn’t going to tell them the truth. Of course I wouldn’t.

“You pulled a gun on a high fae?” Alex finally asked, like he was really sure he’d heard me wrong.

“It was instinct. A mistake,” I lied—it hadn’t been. “And they’re going to find ways to punish me for it at work, but this case is too important. So, I will need to go back and finish that first.”

My

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