The Shadow Project by Cecilia Dominic

Author:Cecilia Dominic
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781945074578
Publisher: AIBHS
Published: 2020-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

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Lawrence brought me and Sir Raleigh back to the hotel. This time I got to sit in the front seat, but Sir Raleigh still had to be in the back in the carrier. I could feel his resentment.

What was happening with the kitten? It felt like he connected spiritually to me more every day, never mind how he liked to literally attach to me. I would have to get thicker shirts or maybe something with shoulder pads. The thought of wearing shoulder pads made me smile.

"What are you thinking?" Lawrence asked. He glanced over, and his lips curled in a slight grin.

That made my humor flee. "Nothing." No way would I tell him I was pondering sartorial suicide to accommodate a cat.

Sir Raleigh chirped from the backseat.

"The cat disagrees. I've been thinking about his unusual talents. Have you ever heard of a grimalkin?"

I didn't want to say yes, but I also didn't want to lie outright—those got you into trouble eventually—so I said, "Maybe."

He went into lecture mode. I folded my hands so I wouldn't strangle him.

"It's a type of dark Fae creature. They're often in the form of animals, and they display normal behaviors for their avatars, but they have strange abilities. There are no two alike."

"He came from a litter," I said, not bothering to correct him or educate him about the gray Fae. Mostly because I didn’t know much about them. Hades, half the light and dark Fae didn’t believe in the gray, but something told me they were real.

"How did the mother cat feel about him?" Lawrence gave me a side glance. "Often they'll masquerade as a young animal, but sometimes they're rejected."

"Veronica—the woman who had him—said the mother cat was perturbed by his disappearing and reappearing and didn't want to nurse him."

"Aha." His condescending tone made me wish I'd lied after all and said she hadn't had a problem with him. "So it's possible he was planted. The question is, by whom?"

"Indeed." I glanced back to see Sir Raleigh watching me with his gold-rimmed green eyes. He licked his nose. Cheeky little thing.

"Too bad he can't talk," I said. "That would solve many of our puzzles."

"He may eventually. Then you might not be able to shut him up." Lawrence shook his head. "That's been my experience, anyway."

"Wait…" I turned to look at him more fully just as he angled the car down a side street and the sun highlighted the—pun intended—chiseled planes of his face. When he wasn't being an ass, he could be good-looking.

Too bad he liked to spend so much time being an ass. But he had information I needed.

"So what you're telling me is that you've encountered these grimalkin creatures before?"

"Sure. Like you, I'm older than I look."

I sat back and folded my arms, more embarrassed than anything that while I'd been fending off his trying to know me more, I'd missed his lack of self-disclosure. "How old are you?" I asked.

"Old enough to not give a straight answer to a Fae," he replied.

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