City of Shadows (2016)
“I had another patrol looming but didn’t feel like moving. I wasn’t ready to go back out there, wrapped in red and black, marching to the same tune as the rest of the fae. I wasn’t like them. I wasn’t.
“You okay?”
I’d heard Nyx enter my bathroom a few minutes earlier but kept my back to the shower door and my head bowed under the jets of water. “Yes. I’m okay.” Whatever tremors remained in my voice, the hiss of the shower hid any sign of weakness.
“This isn’t about Sovereign, is it?” she asked a...fter processing my stilted words.
I lifted my face and let the pressured jets burn my skin. I could just make out her figure through the fogged shower door, leaning against the basin.
“You went to see your policeman friend?”
Samuel must have told her. It wasn’t a secret. Maybe it should have been? I was subject to fae law, and I’d taken his draíocht. Willing, unwilling, what did it matter? Reign was right; Andrews didn’t have a choice.
“Something happened.”MoreLess
“You okay?”
I’d heard Nyx enter my bathroom a few minutes earlier but kept my back to the shower door and my head bowed under the jets of water. “Yes. I’m okay.” Whatever tremors remained in my voice, the hiss of the shower hid any sign of weakness.
“This isn’t about Sovereign, is it?” she asked a...fter processing my stilted words.
I lifted my face and let the pressured jets burn my skin. I could just make out her figure through the fogged shower door, leaning against the basin.
“You went to see your policeman friend?”
Samuel must have told her. It wasn’t a secret. Maybe it should have been? I was subject to fae law, and I’d taken his draíocht. Willing, unwilling, what did it matter? Reign was right; Andrews didn’t have a choice.
“Something happened.”MoreLess
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