The Jester (THE FAE COURT #1) by Alexis Brooke EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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ALANA
Islide the gilded mask onto my face and fasten it behind my ears.
Tonight, I will go unnoticed. I won’t be the girl who did the
unspeakable thing. I won’t be stared at. Men will not shy away from
my touch.
I will dance, and flirt, and laugh, and no one will be afraid of me because
they will not know who I am. My costume – and its magic – will make sure
of that.
There is a tap on the door, prompting me to quickly pull the mask off and
slip it back into the trunk at the foot of my bed.
“Please enter,” I reply, picking up a book and positioning myself by the
window as though this is where I intend to stay for the remainder of the
evening.
Rawk enters with a stride that sharply slaps the wooden boards. “Alana.”
He folds his arms. His wings are out, deep purple, still as the ocean before a
storm.
Mine twitch with unease; they have a habit of betraying my emotions and,
unlike the rest of my body, I have still not learned to tame them.
I put down the book and close the gap between us.
Rawk is older than me by one hundred years. He is one of the older fae in
the village, and is anticipating being named an elder when he reaches his
next half-century. He is not old enough to carry the amount of ego that
swells in his overly large biceps. But he is old enough to be trusted to
contain me this evening.
He quirks an eyebrow, clearly expecting me to speak. When I don’t, he
clicks his fingers and I hold out my forearms.
“Where are your gloves?” he asks, his jaw ticking with irritation.
I motion to the dresser where my purple elbow-length gloves are draped
neatly over the mirror. “I wasn’t expecting visitors.”
With a hesitant but swift movement, Rawk swipes the gloves from the
mirror and holds them in front of me. “Put them on,” he says roughly.
I do as he asks, slipping into their familiar embrace with a sigh.
Rawk nods, then takes a set of silver cuffs from his waistband and secures
them on my wrists. On top of the gloves.
“The cuffs are just for tonight, Alana. You understand why,” he says, his
gaze catching on mine. He smiles. But it was not sympathy that prompted
his remark. It was the hope that I would read it as sympathy and finally
agree to fuck him.
And that is the great irony of my situation; although they are scared of me,
every male in my village wants to be the one to tame me. The one to control
my magic. The one who fucks Alana the Untouchable and escapes
unharmed. With his mind intact.
I would not allow Rawk between my legs if he was the last fae in the
kingdom. And if I did, I would certainly not leave him intact.
“Just for tonight,” I reply sweetly.
He stands for a moment, his wings still unnervingly still. Then he looks me
up and down, makes a tutting sound in the back of his throat, and pulls the
door roughly shut on his way out.
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