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After hanging up with Angie, I sent a quick text to my mom so that she wouldn’t worry about me. The last thing I needed right now was her asking questions I couldn’t answer. Then I turned the sound off and dropped my phone on the table. Fiona’s offer weighed on my mind. I’d always thought my future was so clear. I had it all figured out. But now this whole new world had opened up for me and I wasn’t so sure anymore.
A knock at my door pulled me from my thoughts.
“Eve?” Liam’s head appeared around the edge of the door.
“Hi,” I said.
“Can I come in?”
“Yes!” I smiled at him. “I’d get up, but your cousin said I can’t get out of bed yet.”
“Did she say anything about me getting into bed with you?” He shut the door behind him and leaned against it. Then he flashed me his adorable sheepish grin. He’d resumed his glamour, and his hair had returned to resembling a shaggy mop on the top of his head. A scruffy beard obscured his chin, and he was wearing the same stretched and misshapen wool sweater that he’d had on when I met him. But somehow, he looked different now. I could almost see through his magic to the tall frame, lean muscles, and pointy ears underneath.
I grinned. “Come here.”
He sat gently on the bed next to me. “I was so worried about you.” His fingers skimmed my jaw.
“I’m fine.”
“But you weren’t,” he said. He shook his head. “You don’t remember, do you?”
I searched for the last thing I remembered. Liam transforming into a mountain lion. Us running through the tunnels. Laughing. Then nothing. I shook my head.
“It’s okay now. Fiona fixed you.” He smiled. “I think that means I’ve convinced her to let you live. I mean, she wouldn’t have gone to all that trouble to fix you up just to kill you, would she?”
I grimaced.
“Sorry,” he said. “I’m sorry.” He clasped my hands in his. “I didn’t mean it like that. You should know I’d never let her hurt you. You know that, don’t you?”
“Shh…” I said. “It’s okay.”
“Did she say anything to you?”
“She gave me some things to think about,” I said. “How is your mother?”
“She’s fading. But there is one last problem she must deal with before she goes.” He sighed. “Actually, it involves you.”
“Me?”
“Yes. It has to do with Godda’s bracelet. We were waiting for you to recover before we dealt with it.”
“The bracelet belongs with your people. As long as Oscar agrees, your mother can have it, or give it to whomever she chooses.”
“I’m afraid it’s not that simple.” Liam shook his head. “You’re not going to believe this, but it was there the whole time. Right under our noses.”
“What was?”
“Sorcha discovered it. She first noticed it in the dungeons, but she couldn’t be sure until she returned to our lands and conferred with Mother and Fiona.”
“Noticed what?”
“The markings on the bracelet. When Godda disappeared, she hid her life force in that bracelet.”
“She’s in the bracelet? You can bring her back?”
“No. Not like that. The markings explain everything. It was part of the final spell she cast, the deal she made with Edric. He swore to honor her and never speak against her or her kin, and in turn, she agreed to give up everything, become human, and be with him. She did love him, you see.”
“But I don’t understand. How did she end up in the bracelet?”
