Total pages in book: 141
Estimated words: 132138 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 661(@200wpm)___ 529(@250wpm)___ 440(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 132138 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 661(@200wpm)___ 529(@250wpm)___ 440(@300wpm)
“But I chose. I became a sluagh.” The words are a staccato protestation, but hope is dawning on his face.
This is my gift. “Choose again, Your Majesty.”
Seamus turns, looking at something only he can see. “My wife. She’s here. She waited. I didn’t deserve any of this, but I will take it with a grateful heart. Good-bye, my loves.”
Seamus shimmers for a second and is gone, his choice made.
Shim gives me a broad smile. “You did good, brother.”
Bron does one better. She throws herself into my arms. “Thank you. Thank you, husband.”
I wrap her in my arms, my other half clinging to her back. I am a man with half a soul, but she completes me.
Death is nothing to be afraid of. Not when I’m so loved.
Epilogue
Megan Finn, the Queen of the Seelie Fae
Once upon a time, in a land closer than you would think…
I love to watch my children play along the river. I gave birth to three, each a gorgeous handful, and though I often bemoan the lack of drugs that were my birthright on the Earth plane, I wouldn’t have had them anywhere else.
Tír na nÓg is my heaven.
I wave from the balcony to my husbands, who are teaching our children to fish. Our daughter, it turns out, is by far the best fisherman of the day. She hauls in her trout, beaming up at her fathers and sticking that bratty tongue out at her brothers.
Soon we will travel to the Dark Palace for our annual celebrations—a renewal of our close ties to the Unseelie. I look forward to seeing my sweet sister-in-law and their two boys. I hope Dante and Kaja will come home from their travels long enough to join in the festivities.
I wave again and then turn to look over my kingdom.
I was born so far away, and yet I seldom think of that place anymore. This is home. I fought for it and grew for it. I became a woman here. This is where I loved and lost and found myself anew.
I turn my face up, letting the sun shine down.
This is where I found those three elusive words.
Happily Ever After.