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The law should apply to everyone. That was my motto. I’d seen how the law could be flaunted by people like my father. But when I got to Homeland, it was more of the same. Politics were always part of the job.
Fabien should be a complete psychopath, but instead he's amiable, charming even. He was right, earlier, about me being bored. In hindsight, I think the reason I took his hand was because I wanted to get out of there.
I wanted some excitement. Something different.
And he's giving me that. The little looks, the gentle touches. He sends these thrills through my body that I've never felt with a guy before. He's like sex and hotness and danger wrapped in one.
All the risk I've craved my whole life, but gorgeous and muscular.
"Have they told you about the mountain god’s blessing yet?"
"Huh?"Sorry, I was daydreaming about how hot you are."The what now?"
He smiles again, looking at me like he's discovered some odd creature who doesn't belong in his garden.
"The mountain god’s blessing,” he says again. “I mean, technically no one can tell you about it. The contract between the mountain god and our family protects itself with powerful magic to keep itself secret. You have to learn it for yourself, in person. In Faerie. And you’ll never be able to reveal it to anyone. But it’s a thing you’ll have to do, to become one of us.”
One of the Raidh.Wow.
"It sounds like a lot of pressure…” I say, slowly. Then I wonder if he's fucking with me. Or testing me. His eyes betray nothing. "Are you serious?"
"I am. It’s like a right of passage. But don’t worry, it isn’t dangerous.”
We walk to the pond where I'd seen the little creature looking at me on the drive up. I don't see anything in the water now. But it's probably full of things.
Fabien pretty much confirms it.
"There's a tribe of greenteeth who live in the pond. It connects to a larger waterway beneath the city, like a spring. We're not sure where it goes, but they owe fealty to my clan and so we protect them. They obey us, reasonably, but…I wouldn't go swimming at night if I were you. They’re obedient, but they don’t see well, and at night, they bite almost everything. Even my father wouldn’t swim here at night.”
But I bet you do. I don’t know why I think that. I just know that when he’s in the water,nothingfucks with him.
I shiver again when his hand and tentacles touch my back. He leads me back inside and to the drawing room. Everyone is wiped out for the day.
The tall, pinched looking guy, Octavian, practically bowls me over heading to his room. He doesn’t even say excuse me.
“Please,” Lysander says. “We have rooms made up for each of you.”
