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  “Go to hell, human.”

  “You failed to answer my question.”

  “I don’t answer to your kind.”

  “So that’s how it is then?”

  Ciaran glared at me, fire burning in his wide eyes. Without warning, he shoved at me, sending me stepping back to catch my balance. He reached over touching one hand to Isolde’s and held out a small sphere in the other.

  I’d seen those before. I only knew of one person who used them, but that didn’t mean there weren’t more out there.

  No!

  Before I could stop him, a sudden rush of wind and light smacked into the rest of us, sending us tumbling backwards.

  Ciaran had a teleportation orb and knew how to use it. My ability to detect magic was waning, and I thought I knew why. After everything, I’d been played the entire time I’d been with Isolde’s group by none other than Ciaran. He had shielded his real magic from me with a shield I couldn’t compromise and lost Isolde to him for payment. But why?

  The reasons remained unanswered and would stay that way for a long time.

  Chapter Eleven

  I visited the small group of outcast faeries often. I still didn’t know or hear anything about Isolde and Ciaran months after the attack. Not one day passed that I didn’t think of Isolde. She’d been my first love, and I’d always love her, no matter what hardships laid between us, miles apart. I knew she thought of me when I’d left her without a trace to fight the faery war.

  That was cold comfort now.

  She’d be laughing about payback. I was sure of it.

  If only she could laugh, or speak for that matter.

  Something told me she was as silent as the day she was petrified and turned into a sleeping beauty. If there was something to be said about Isolde, it was that no one got the best of her without a steep price. Whatever she was, whatever she was hiding, this particular magical being would remain silent and sleeping until the spell was broken and she awoke from eternal slumber one day. I wished I knew what the antidote to the sleeping spell that she placed upon herself just in case a person successfully got to her with a revealing curse.

  Isolde was one tough woman to crack and Ciaran was probably screaming in a rage that he had failed to break through her armor and discover who she really was. Whoever she was, she had to be important. No one would go through so much trouble living as a common faery amongst those with little to no magic if it weren't for a darn good reason.

  She’d gotten through my own thick laden armor and into my heart once. I wouldn’t let that go without reward. I’d find her one day and make sure Ciaran paid for his treachery if it were the only thing I had to live for.

  I hoped wherever she was that she knew I would find her and work to break the spell first just to see her shining eyes once more. I’d let her sweet, soft lips kiss me again and again until the past disappeared and we were back at that creek, soaked to the bone. Just like old times.

  Until then. I’d wait. I’d keep my senses on overdrive to catch the scent of her trail again. After all, those days—with her—were the best days of my life.

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  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

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