Page 31 of Forsaken Dream
The creature disappeared, and if I hadn’t been in control of my brain functions in that moment, I would’ve thought I’d imagined it. Not even I had that good of an imagination to come up with something so ugly it was almost cute.
“Where did it go?” Looking around, there was no sign of the creature.
“Where did who go?” Angelo walked into the kitchen followed by Tyler. The moment the gargoyle entered, it felt claustrophobic in the small room.
“No one.” The denial burst from my mate as if I hadn’t been standing next to her when those farts melted my face.
“The two of you are right on time.” Leaning my ass on the counter with a smirk, I folded my arms across my chest. “Echo was about to tell me which realm she comes from.”
The ball was now in her court. She could tell us what she was or explain who—or what—the horrible farting creature was. Either way, I was chipping at her walls so I could discover everything I could about my mate. I wanted to know all her secrets so I could please her better. I made it my mission to be the one to keep the smile on her face, though I had been failing miserably so far. It was more than the other two had done anyway.
“She was?” The eager look and the bright smile Angelo beamed at her almost blinded me. “I’m so happy you decided to trust us, dove.”
Swallowing the lump of apprehension, I stood still. If she decided to ignore all of it and call me a liar, it’d shatter the angel more than us. He naively expected that, because the female knew we were her mates, she would be forthcoming with everything. I, on the other hand, was much wiser. The horror stories I’d heard in my lifetime about mate bonds being ignored, denied, or worst of all broken had ice forming in my veins. Fear that I pushed her too hard and too fast curdled my blood.
“After that, we will take her to see the human.” The words blurted from my lips before I could stop them.
The two males turned furious glares on me, but Echo’s gaze was shocked and full of hope. The fist that was preventing me to take a full breath eased with that, the fear simmering low since I wasn’t sure I was out of the hot water just yet.Come on Vaser, you are better than this. You’ve manipulated your way out of a lot of situations that were much worse than this.Giving myself a pep talk, I held my breath and waited to see what she did.
“And you made that decision on your own?” Tyler snarled, his fists the size of my head clenching at his sides.
“Yes.” Holding his gaze, I kept my face expressionless.
Angelo searched my eyes, and whatever he saw there made him nod once. “Agreed.” Tyler snapped his head in the angel’s direction, but the golden male only shrugged. “We will be with her at all times, so the human won’t go anywhere near her.”
Echo gulped when all three of us trained our eyes on her. Putting her on the spot had not been my intention to begin with, but I was very adaptable in my pursuit to know my mate. It looked like the other two were the same, if the expectancy wafting from them in waves was anything to go by. She moved from foot to foot for a second, but in an instant her shoulders squared. She had made her decision. I braced myself for even an ounce of anything my mate was willing to share.
“I come from the Faerie realm.” Her lip trembled, but she held her chin high. “I am a Fae, a Seelie to be exact.”
The grin stretched over my face, and it was so broad it hurt. It matched Tyler’s, the male looking terrifying since we’d never seen him grin like a fool before. But not Angelo. The golden male I loved to call naïve gaped at our mate as if she had grown another head. The two of them knew something Tyler and I didn’t, obviously.
“What?” I snapped in frustration. I needed to know what was wrong with our mate being a Fae.
“Echo,” Angelo breathed, his face paling. “As in Echo Darkwing?”
“I don’t know if that’s supposed to mean something to us,” Tyler growled, as pissed as I was for being left out.
“The missing heir to the Seelie throne.” The whispered words from the angel’s mouth held tinges of awe, but also horror. Alarms blared in my head, and they were so loud they made me dizzy. “The one who’s hand is promised to the Unseelie prince.”
“Fuck!”
