Shoot, sooner rather than later. I didn’t want to hide things from her anymore. Family told each other stuff, right? “Fae born on Earth are supposed to go back to Faerie to be trained. I never did, and they caught up with me. They said I could get let off the hook if I helped them with some stuff.”
We rolled back out onto the highway and cruised back up to speed, hardly able to hear each other with the din going on in the back. “Faerie? What kind of place is that? Anything like all the bedtime stories? It’s a rough place if it is.”
“I’ve never been. But this is what my mom was hiding me from, and if she didn’t want me going back, I don’t think I want to.” Hopefully the reason she left me at Waterton Heights. But I would probably never know.
“What happened to your mom?”
“I don’t know. S
