creepy hollow 05 - a faerie's revenge Read Online Free PDF

Draven doing visiting you at our union celebration?”
    “We’re friends , okay? At least, we were before he turned out to be the supreme halfling prince of evil.”
    “Friends?” Ryn asks, eyeing me closely. “That’s it?”
    I’ve never been the blushing sort, but I can’t help the heat that rises to my face as I remember Chase taking my hand and sliding his fingers between mine. I so badly wanted it to be more. Ugh, how could I have been so deluded?
    “Wonderful,” Ryn says with a long sigh, his eyes on the betraying flush in my cheeks. He looks at Vi, who seems to be refusing to meet his gaze. “The awkward moment in which I discover that both my wife and my sister have made out with the same guy.”
    My brain stumbles over Ryn’s words and comes to a horrified halt. “WHAT?”
    Vi glares at her husband and crosses her arms. “Thank you, Oryn. Probably not the best time to bring that up.”
    “Is there a more appropriate time to mention something like this?”
    “You kissed Lord Draven ?”
    “Hey, so did you,” she replies defensively.
    “I did not. I might have wanted to—” Ryn interrupts with a groan “—but fortunately it never happened.”
    “Look, he wasn’t Lord Draven back then. He was just a regular guy I’d saved on one of my assignments.”
    “Whoa. Whoa. One of your assignments ? How do I not know this?”
    “Because you didn’t need to,” Ryn says. “Barely anyone knows that all of this started when one simple assignment went wrong and a guy who thought he was human accidentally ended up in our realm.”
    “He … he was …” Words fail to form as my brain rushes to fill in some of the gaps of Chase’s story. The gaps I was wondering about just this morning. He grew up in the human realm. He thought he was human. And then Vi tried to save him from something, and he ended up here in our world. “You knew him,” I murmur. “You knew him before everything went wrong.”
    “Yes,” she says quietly. “He was a good guy.”
    Amidst the confusing mess of emotions already pulling me in a hundred different directions, I find myself feeling oddly … left out. As though I’ve arrived in the middle of someone’s retelling of a story and missed out on part of it.
    “Okay,” Ryn says, his tone suggesting that this is the point where he attempts to take control of the situation. “We obviously have to inform the Council of this, but we need to know more. There’s no sense in creating mass panic for no reason. So the question is, what kind of guy is he after having destroyed half our world? Calla?” He looks at me. “You’re the one who knows him now.”
    I lift my shoulders in a helpless shrug. “I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. He kept a lot of secrets from me, and I don’t know if what he did tell me was the truth. The only thing I know is that you won’t be able to find him. I went to his house Underground—”
    “Underground?” Vi interrupts. “Here in Creepy Hollow?”
    “Yes. I went there this morning and he and all his belongings are gone. I went to his tattoo studio as well, and that’s also gone. Some creepy witches have a shop there now.”
    “Witches?” Ryn says. “That can’t be right.”
    I’m not in the mood to argue, so I simply say, “I don’t know, Ryn. They looked like witches. My point is that I have no idea where Chase is, and I doubt you or I will be able to find him. If he’s remained hidden all this time, he’s obviously very good at it.”
    “There must be something else you can tell us,” Vi says. “Something he said that might—”
    “Hey, Calla, we’re starting the race now,” Perry calls to me as he and Ned head for the library door.
    “Great. Gotta go.” I slip past Ryn and Vi and hurry to catch up to my friends.
    “Everything okay?” Perry asks. “Looks like your brother isn’t too pleased with you.”
    “He isn’t, but it’s no big deal. I’ll talk to him later and sort things out.” We hurry down