Kelpie (Come Love a Fey) (30 page)

After
my speech, I stepped down from the podium and escaped through the speakers’
exit.  There was a woman waiting for me and I couldn’t help but stop.  She
looked like she was at her wits’ end. 

“Can
I help you?”

She
jumped and her eyes lit up.  She wrung her small hands nervously and cleared
her throat.  “I know you can see the fey.”  Her voice was a whisper, hushed and
urgent. 

I
said nothing.  That fey could glamour humans into seeing whatever they wished
them to see was one of the little details they had not chosen to share with the
world.

“I
think there might be something wrong with me.  I can see them too.”  She
stepped closer and dropped her voice even more.  “I think my boyfriend is a
monster.”

I
saw Leith’s dark head approaching us from the crowd.  He reached us and I put a
hand on the woman’s shoulder.  “This isn’t something we should talk about
here.  Can you come home with me?  I’ll make you some tea, and we’ll see what I
can do to help.”  I gave Leith a pleading look and he shrugged and led the way
to the car. 

“This
is the third one this month.”  I ignored his tone.  He was getting used to my
new role, and he knew that I felt I had found my calling helping humans who
were suddenly thrust into this world.  If she was seeing through her
boyfriend’s glamour, then he had bonded with her deeply.

I
slipped into the backseat beside the slender woman, and winked at Leith in the
rearview mirror.  “Now then, why don’t you tell me what you know about
fairies?”

END