The Unseen by Thea Harrison

Author:Thea Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781947046290
Publisher: Teddy Harrison LLC
Published: 2020-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

First of all, when Niall woke up, he didn’t notice or care where he was. He just wanted to run and run and run and run and run, blithely oblivious to the locale, common sense, or any reason.

Pia managed to keep hold of him until she could get him down the path from their temporary house to the private stretch of beach Dragos had cordoned off for their personal use. When she set the baby down, he exploded into his Wyr form.

As he careened with haphazard joy down the beach, Pia and Eva chased after him for a good hour to make sure he didn’t hurt himself before he finally slowed down and agreed to change back into the baby to be fed.

Secondly, when Pia had heard they would be staying in temporary housing until their permanent home was finished enough to occupy, she’d been picturing something primitive like an army-style tent with composting bucket toilets and camp showers out the back.

She couldn’t have been further from the truth. After feeding Niall on the beach, she and Eva returned to the house at an easy jog. Dragos and Skeeter had disappeared, no doubt so that Dragos could talk to the dozens of construction foremen and settlement officials who had gathered to clamor for his attention.

There was no lack of work to be done and, Eva told her, there were already close to twenty thousand souls present. Everything in the city was growing at once. There were representatives from mundane human governments and all the Elder Races present—Elves, Vampyres (currently at rest), other Nightkind, and witches, and Demonkind, and both Light and Dark Fae—from countries and demesnes all over the world.

Several embassies were already in the process of being built, and while each person present in Rhyacia had passed a rigorous security inspection, a Wyr police force maintained a smiling presence throughout the settlement. The citizens of the world continued to consider Dragos a premiere force to be reckoned with, no matter how remote his locale.

With Dragos gone, that left Pia to explore their temporary living quarters at her leisure. Their prefab house had been positioned in such a way that it was surrounded by other dwellings occupied by security and house staff, but the area had been landscaped to provide them with a screen of foliage for privacy. Eva’s cottage was tucked into one corner of the square.

The entire compound had been gated with a high privacy fence and felt like a small, self-contained village. Before he left, Dragos had told her that the compound even had a convenience store located inside the gate with fresh produce, a selection of cheeses, wines and other liquor, candies, baked goods, hot stir-fried foods, and other amenities. If she needed or wanted anything, all she had to do was send a request and it would be delivered.

Once inside, Pia discovered their house was an eighteen-hundred-square-foot living space with three bedrooms, vaulted ceilings, large windows, two fireplaces—one in the living room and another

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