Spirited by C.M. Stunich

Author:C.M. Stunich [Stunich, C.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy
Publisher: Sarian Royal
Published: 2018-01-19T16:00:00+00:00

I'd have slept through All Haunts' Eve if Elijah hadn't popped into my bedchamber and poked my forehead with a cold finger.

Blinking awake, I forgot to be mad at him because he was staring at me with such a deep sense of relief that it made my wild fatigue worth it. All that shopping plus using Hellim's dark powers for the first time thoroughly exhausted me. Even though I came back from the market soaked in sweat with Air tossing me those strange, cryptic looks, I was too tired to accept his proposal that we visit the bathhouse together.

And I liked visiting the bathhouse with Air because, well, I liked ogling his naked body. I wasn't too ashamed to admit it.

“Jasinda has been banging on your door for the better part of an hour. She says you missed breakfast, the party starts in less than six hours, and if you want to eat lunch and get properly dressed for the celebration, you'll get up now.”

“So you're using her as an excuse to invade my bedroom?” I grumbled, sitting up in the canopy bed that the queen had gifted me when Jasinda and I were paired together for the first time. I wondered if I got to take it with me when we moved onto the Royal College campus? If we'd been staying in the dorms, that would've been a definite no. But it sounded like Everess planned to put us somewhere more private, likely the staff apartments.

“Maybe,” Elijah said, mouth twitching as he patted the head of the ghost mouse that was sitting in his pocket, staring at me with beady blue-white eyes. Elijah of Haversey was very much corporeal and beautiful in that moment, even if his hands were as cold as ice. But the mouse was a shimmery spirit still and I had no idea if it was the same one he'd picked up yesterday or a new one. As if on cue, the ghost dog he'd acquired at the market trotted into the room and sat at his feet. “And it's a very nice bedroom if I do say so myself.”

Sitting on the edge of my bed—and doing a fairly convincing job of pretending to be alive enough to make the mattress dent—Eli looked around the room and made me blush furiously. Jasinda was the only person who was welcome in my room. Well, her and Air. He really had stayed in here, waiting for me to come back from Grandberg Manor, and I had a pillow soaked with his smell to prove it. I'd been hugging it close every night since.

“Stop gawping and get out,” I said, but I didn't feel the words as much as I should have. It didn't really bother me to have Elijah of Haversey performing his admittedly sexy lazy king slouch on my bed.

“You saved my ass yesterday,” he told me, glancing over with strands of dark hair curling over his forehead. He must've been clean-shaven when he died because not a lick of stubble marred his face nor would it ever again.

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