Tempest in Disguise (Darkest Faerie Tale Series Book 1) Read Online Free PDF Page B

crinkling and she held her arms out for balance as it shook. Walls started burning hotter, like the flames were about to erupt at any minute, the paint on the sheetrock turned liquid and oozed down the wall. She coughed, realizing how much smoke she’d been inhaling. As the second story started to shake and collapse on the first, she ran toward the sliding glass doors, shards shattered and she dived through the holes onto her parent’s front balcony as it gave out. She barrel rolled, clenching the wooden box against her body and braced for impact. After slamming to the ground, she twisted, rolling on the grass, eventually coming to a stop. She lay there on the ground and watched what was left of her world—crumble before her eyes.
    Her heart clenched as the remaining glass shards of the windows crunched. She covered her face, the destruction too hard to watch. Sounds of the house imploding on itself left her huddled and cringing with each snap. No. No. No! Inner paralyzing pain cramped in her gut and she screamed out in agony to make it stop. The last reminder of her mother and father, everything they left behind, gone. It felt like losing her parents all over again.
    Poof! Finally, the fire consumed and sucked away every memory she had there—baking with her mom, playing chess with her dad—gone in one swift moment. Wafting plumes of smoke carried it all away—only ashes drifting away in the air. She wiped the tears from her face, not even realizing she’d been crying, and she found herself utterly alone.
    Mya grabbed the cell phone from her back pocket and called 911. Talking to the operator, she sucked in deep breaths, still coughing and hacking from all the smoke she inhaled. Consciousness hung on by a thread. Everything else faded into a tunnel and the phone slid from her grasp.
    First Nicole’s brother, now this. Her sixth sense tingled in warning, something wasn’t right. There were too many coincidences so close together. It had to be those impish Unseelies. Some mischievous type of Aos sí magick must be tied to this. Houses didn’t burn down like hers just did. What about the naughty Unseelie who seduced her last night? He had something to do with it all. He used her—took her darkest desires and turned them against her, probably to distract her from his true intentions. More hot tears flowed down her face.
    Her entire world flipped on its axis.
    Sirens wailed from down the street. Her car exploded in what was left of the garage and she doubled over covering her head and neck, sobbing even further. She’d planned to pick Nicole up at the airport. Mya buried her head in her hands while plumes of fire and smoke consumed the atmosphere around her.
    Where would she live? She couldn’t stay with Nicole’s family while they were in mourning and planning a funeral. They didn’t need the additional drama.
    She could call Michaela. At the nauseating thought, Mya tried not to dry heave. Michaela was supposedly her friend, but she was really all about herself. She never truly felt sympathy for others, because this was her world, everyone else merely resided there. Mya couldn’t take having to deal with Michaela’s first world problems while she experienced real world problems—her entire livelihood—gone.
    Scrolling through the names in her phone, she paused at Gavin’s name. Through damp eyes, she stared at the picture next to his name, his warm smile. Over the years, he never let her down and they became closer, but she feared he wanted something further between them. At this point though, she needed someone and he was her friend. She hit the call button and covered her other ear to drown out the sounds of the sirens roaring to a stop in front of her house.
    Gavin picked up instantly. “Hey,” he sounded pretty alert considering the sun barely rose over the horizon. “What’s up, sugar? Is that sirens?”
    Unable to speak, she choked on a sob.
    “Mya, are you okay?” he shouted. “Where are you? At