Twenty-One
I’m standing in Chase’s lakeside house preparing myself mentally to meet the runaway Seelie princess who betrayed her family, personally hunted down a terrible and dangerous power, and stood alongside her son as he consumed that power and proceeded to bring our world to its knees. A woman who, unlike her son, most likely feels not a shred of remorse for the things she’s done.
I hear the front door open behind me. I turn immediately, knowing that it can’t be Chase. He went back through the faerie door to the mountain. To fetch something, he’d said. Before I can reach for the knife in my boot, I see who it is. Elizabeth, the woman I saw in Chase’s past. The woman I met at Estellyn Tower.
“Hello,” she says. “Where’s Chase? I thought we needed to leave now.”
Her question confuse
