Book one of three in the Forbidden Alliance Trilogy
Jay Dee doesn't know where she came from, who she is, or why she washed up on the beach when she was a child. The only life she had ever known was on the reservation with her tribe and pack. In a w...
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The soft knock at the door was followed by a gray mist that crept from under it. The mist swirled along the floor and halfway across the room before Mum solidified.
"How is she, my precious one?" she whispered, her eyes moving over the face of the girl using my lap as a pillow as she softly purred in her sleep.
I shook my head, not entirely sure what to say, and continued caressing Jay Dee's hair.
"Her parents requested that she stay the night," Mum continued, taking a seat in the chair across from the couch where Jay Dee fell asleep.
I nodded.
"My precious one, please, talk to me," Mum pleaded.
"They were going to kill her," I whispered, choking on the words.
"Yes, they were. However, they did not," she reminded me.
I looked up at her. "Only because she told them to stop."
She cocked an eyebrow.
"Mum, something is...can mythical creatures be thralled?" I asked pointblank.
The response I was hoping for, surprise, wasn't the one I got.
She forced a smile and merely shrugged.
I nodded. "Very well, who are these people?" I asked, handing her the photo I had taken from Jay Dee's house the night of her birthday.
Mum reluctantly took the photo from me and her forced smile instantly fell and tears flooded her eyes when she looked at it. "Where did you get this?" she whispered, her hand covering her mouth.
"It was hidden at Miss Jay Dee's house, behind a picture of a young woman with a striking resemblance to Eldress Lightfoot. I recognize four of the six in the picture, yet the other two have haunted my mind since first seeing the photo. Mum, who are they?"
"They..." she stammered, her dark cheeks stained with tears. "The man is Olaf and the woman is Aesa."
Those names were vaguely familiar.
"They are Miss Jay Dee's parents, are they not?" I asked pointblank. "She has Olaf's strong jaw, chin and brows, and Aesa's cheekbones, eyes, lips and long neck."
Mum shook her head and shrugged. "I can neither confirm nor deny, because I honestly do not know. However, I will attest that the necklace Miss Jay Dee wears is the same as the one in the picture around Aesa's neck," she pointed out, though I couldn't see the necklace in the picture so obviously Mum knew more than she was letting on.
"Those werewolves were going to kill her but they stopped because she told them to stop," I whispered, trying to believe the simplicity of the words myself as I said them aloud, but they were anything simplistic. "That is not possible...is it?"
