Total pages in book: 130
Estimated words: 121008 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 605(@200wpm)___ 484(@250wpm)___ 403(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 121008 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 605(@200wpm)___ 484(@250wpm)___ 403(@300wpm)
That’s the right answer. Yes, I should hurry. I need to get home to my fantastic life on the Earth plane. I need to get back to work, so I can go back to my dreary apartment at the end of a long day and microwave something I don’t want to eat and watch television I don’t care about. I don’t want to stay and explore this strange place. I don’t want to give that gorgeous hunk of a man a chance. I certainly don’t want to meet the other, possibly even hotter, half of him. No, I wanted to go back to a place that probably doesn’t even realize I’m gone.
I’m being an idiot.
I stop in the middle of the trail. A vision of Beck swamps my senses, and I’m stunned by how much I feel for him. I’m walking away from Beck after a day?
Everything crystallizes as I stand in the middle of a faery forest. I have to shake my head in an attempt to think clearly. I’m in the middle of a freaking faery forest. All of my life, I daydreamed and read fantasy novels and did anything I could to escape my sad reality. In those daydreams I’m a different person. I’m a confident, lovable woman who faces challenges head on. Who fights for what I want.
Maybe it’s time to be the person I’ve always wanted to be.
I’ve been scared up until now. No. I’m still scared, but something else takes over in this moment. Some deep sense of adventure. I’ve waited for this all of my life, and now I’m running away?
“Come along, miss.” The red man stares curiously. “Well, what are you waiting for? I can get you home.”
I can’t believe I’m doing this. I shake my head in the negative. It’s insane, but my decision is made. I’m going to help Beck save his brother. I’m going to explore and see what’s out here. I’m going to gently try to push Beck into the kind of relationship that will satisfy us both. “I changed my mind. I don’t want to go home. Honestly, my life there kind of sucked. Maybe life here will suck, too, but shouldn’t I give it a chance? When you think about it, it’s kind of cool. I mean, I have seen more weird-ass shit in the last twenty-four hours than most people see in a lifetime. Vampires. How freaking cool is that? They have their own plane and apparently are just as interested in their stock portfolios as they are in blood. And gnomes. Sure, they didn’t actually have any travel tips for me, so they weren’t like the ones at home, but the ones at home are ceramic. They aren’t half as awesome as the ones here. And the sidhe.” I sigh. “I think I care about him. He needs me. I can’t walk away.”
“So you don’t want to go home?”
Now that I’m being honest with myself I have no idea what I was thinking before. “Screw my home. Somewhere out there is this superhot faery. He paid a lot of money for me. My ex-husband never took me to any place nicer than a Chili’s because he was a cheap ass. Beck already spent more on me than any man ever has, and then he had to do the Fight Club thing. No one ever fought for me before. Sure, he was kind of a dickhead afterward, but I think I can work on that problem. And I haven’t even met his other half. I think they’re identical. Twins should be identical, right? Even if they aren’t, even if he’s unattractive, I’ll be okay with it because Cian is a part of Beck. If I care about one, then I have to accept the other. Right?”
The red man takes a deep breath. “You’re a strange girl. You speak faster than my ears work. Are you saying you no longer wish to return to your own plane?”
“Yes. I’m going to give this marriage thing another shot. Apparently, if it doesn’t work out, murder is always an option. Beck promised me.” See. I have outs. Of course Beck’s going to be pissed I left. Maybe I can tell him I was looking for a place to use the bathroom. Or trying to find him because I got lonely.
Maybe he’ll spank me.
“Well, that throws a different light on the thing, then,” the red man mutters.
“What?” I wasn’t sure I properly caught that last part. The small man doesn’t make sense.
His face is jovial as he looks up, as though all his consternation has floated away. “Nothing, dear, nothing at all. I think it’s marvelous that you’ve decided to give the king another chance. Love is more important than any other consideration. I know how to get you back to your husband, dearie.”