Page 76 of Power Shift

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“Caelan is correct. The pendant is strong enough to hold the spell. I sense magic woven into its deepest layers. Protective magic. He chose well, Evie.”

“And now I have to worry about losing it,” I muttered.

“We hope you’d worry about that anyway since we’re about to stuff it full of a world-ending seed,” Moira said.

“The seed will find its way back to you,” Tess said. “Or at least that’s what your father said.”

Silence fell like an anvil.

“Sonofabitch,” I swore.

“Woah,” Moira said.

I sank down onto the couch, suddenly boneless.

“Tess.” Ash’s voice was sharp. “How in the world would you know that?”

Tess waved a delicate hand. “The threads that bind them. Any of my kind would recognize they’re kin.”

“And you just thought to tell her now?” Moira said.

“Why would I tell her? If Evie looked hard enough, she would have seen the threads too.”

Awesome. I rubbed my eyes.

Caelan sat down beside me. His posture bristled with tension. “You’re a goddess,” he said quietly. “A full one.”

“I need a moment.” Suspicion kept rearing its ugly head over the last few months. Why was Cernunnos so interested in me? Why was he helping me?

Moira pressed a glass of wine into my hand. “Drink.”

Ash held up a finger. “I’m not sure drinking?—”

“Shut up, Ash,” Tess and Moira said at the same time.

The banshee floated over. “I’m sorry, Evie.”

I tried to give her a reassuring smile but wasn’t sure I was successful. “Don’t be sorry. My paternity isn’t your fault.”

Tess wrung her hands together. “For not telling you.” Her voice shook. “I don’t always understand the right thing to do to be a good friend.”

I sat up and reached out to her, taking her cool hand in mine. “Tess. Youarea good friend. Being like everyone else is overrated anyway.”

She ducked her head. “Are you okay?”

“I will be.” I think. Holy shit. I wasn’t just a goddess. I was a…

The world swirled around me. My heartbeat picked up.

“Evie?” A warm hand on my knee.

The world turned to a pinpoint, blackness creeping at the edge of my vision.

I wasn’t just a goddess.

I was a freaking fae princess.

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