The Seeker's Return by Isadora Brown

Author:Isadora Brown [Brown, Isadora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Isadora Brown

16

This was the weirdest thing to have ever happened to me, and even I had to admit I had gone through some weird stuff.

But seriously, Chessy, of all things, finding me in the Fae realm and then leading me out of the prison had to take the cake.

I wrapped my arms around my body. I missed my jacket, my clothes. As much as I loved Rumple’s shirt, I was cold and uncomfortable. My feet were bare, and I was pretty sure the soles were cut up thanks to being imprisoned on uneven floor.

The darkness still permeated everywhere we were, but I could see the nonchalant swish of Chessy’s tail in front of me, telling me he was still here in front of me. He hadn’t abandoned me to my fate here.

It was weird, but I honestly felt like Chessy was some savior from Anna. I still wasn’t sure if I believed in the concept of life after death. I knew Wonderland celebrated some odd mixture of Halloween and Samhain, honoring the dead while celebrating the thinned veil. Kids went around in costumes, trick-or-treating. While magic hadn’t been part of Wonderland in years, I knew blessings were said, simple earth spells uttered without the aid of actual magic to mark the holiday. But Samhain had been a week ago, just after the ordeal with the wolves in the Blood Forest. Chessy showing up now didn’t seem to mesh with anything else Halloween-y.

And yet, Chessy belonged to Anna. He was the damn cat Jack had been looking for, for a couple of months now.

For MaryBeth.

I frowned, chewing my bottom lip. MaryBeth, who was really Sadie.

I wondered if she recognized the cat and took him in. And when the cat disappeared, she hired Jack to find him.

Had he? Was Chessy retrieving me some sort of magic unto itself? The only person I knew who had magic besides Rumple was MaryBeth, Sadie, whoever she was.

I racked my mind, trying to think if Chessy acted in any way that might hint he was magic back when Anna was still alive and he was her pet. The only thing I remembered was Chessy not liking anyone save for me. I wasn’t even sure if he liked Anna. But he would let me pet him and, sometimes, when me and Anna were hanging around in her room, sometimes he’d hop in my lap and demand attention. But besides that, he didn’t seem that extraordinary.

“You know,” I murmured. “I wish you could tell me where we’re going. I want to trust you since you’re Anna’s cat, but then, you belong to MaryBeth now, and Rumple doesn’t trust her for some reason, so I’m not sure what team you’re on.”

Chessy stopped walking for a moment. I stopped too so I wouldn’t step on him. He kept his back to me and craned his head so it was practically doing a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree angle, his colorful, eerie eyes looking at me. Paired with the grin, I found myself paralyzed to the spot.

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