The Frey Saga Book IV by Melissa Wright

Author:Melissa Wright [Wright, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melissa Wright

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Chevelle

Liana screamed. It was not the screech of an angry woman, it was the soul-splitting scream of an ancient changeling who had planned and plotted and lost the key that would allow her to win. It was anger spelled to life.

Chevelle couldn’t say he disagreed with her.

“How long have they been gone?” he barked.

Edan glanced at the sky. “They could be near the base of the mountain by now, as long as the Summit boy keeps his seat.”

Chevelle’s eye narrowed on Edan, who quickly realized his mistake. Steed had taken to spending leisure time among the sentries, playing cards and betting stakes. They’d all become too casual. Despite his apparent charm and easy humor, Steed was no boy.

He was High Guard. He was one of their Seven. It was bloody well time he started acting like it.

“We’ll never catch him,” Grey said. “It’s an extra day’s ride, and even if they’ve stopped…”

“We could go on to court,” Anvil offered. He gestured toward Liana, whose screaming had ceased and glass-breaking had commenced. “She could fly down there, grab whatever she needs from Steed—”

Liana picked up a stoneware pitcher and slammed it onto the library floor. “Is it so easy?” she chided. “Flit down there like a reeking pixie and snatch whatever I need? Are you a fool?”

Anvil shrugged. “I’m not the one who let him—”

Liana’s finger shot up, pointed dangerously at Anvil’s broad face. “Don’t you say it.”

“I’m going without you,” Chevelle told her. “Do what you will, but I won’t abandon her to the fey.” They knew he meant Freya, he didn’t need to say her name.

He wasn’t certain he could, in any case.

“It’s a fool’s errand and you know it,” Liana shot back. “If you don’t have the key, there’s nothing for you to bargain.”

“So what is the key?” Grey asked her. “We fake it; we do whatever needs to be done.”

Liana sighed, her fingers curling into claws and then free again. She was green beneath the eyes, the rest of her barely retaining silver-gray. “It can’t be faked. It isn’t possible.”

“You underestimate us,” Grey said.

She smirked, testy fidgeting momentarily ceased. “That I do not. It isn’t something you can fake. The key is laced with fey magic, with a particular fey’s magic.”

There was silence for a long moment, the hard truth of it sinking in. You couldn’t counterfeit that kind of marking. It could only come from a few of the most powerful high fey. Chevelle had seen it once…

“The diary,” Chevelle said. “The key is the diary, marked by Ruby’s mother. The fey want that journal.”

Liana’s eyes shot to Chevelle, apparently unaware he had knowledge of the fey markings and appalled that he’d so easily named the key.

“Wait,” Grey said.

But Chevelle was moving, quick and deliberate.

“Do you mean the one we carried with us, the one you bartered the stone for?” Grey said, hurrying to keep up. “That diary?”

“No,” Chevelle answered. “Not Freya’s. Ruby’s.”

He’d said it. He’d said her name and it had not crushed him. Because he had a plan.

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