Free Pink Princess Fairytini (Fairy Files #2) by Katharine Sadler Page A

what you can find. There’s something off here.”
    “Right,” Frost said. “There’s something off here, in the Non. Going to Rubalia won’t solve that.”
    Vin shook her head. “I think you’re wrong, and it’s worth this boy’s life to go to Rubalia and look into it.”
    “But if we’re wrong …” I said, my earlier desire to talk to my mother forgotten with my fear about the risk we took. Taking Frost away from this case when it might mean the boy’s life wasn’t okay.
    “We’ve got no leads here,” Vin said. “Don’t you have someone else in your office you can put on this case, Frost?”
    He shook his head. “They mostly do research for me, all the grunt work I don’t have time for. Amy sometimes works the odd insurance fraud case, but none of them have the experience I have. I can’t leave this case to them.”
    “What about Harvey?” I asked.
    “What about him?” Frost’s body tensed and his jaw clenched.
    “He could work the case. He might uncover something we haven’t.”
    “He’s also got restraints on him I don’t have. I can focus all of my attention on this case, but he’s got a boss to answer to.”
    I nodded. “So I go to Rubalia alone.”
    “Shit, no,” Frost said. He ran his fingers through his hair, causing half of it to flop in his face, which only seemed to annoy him more. He needed a haircut. “Call Harvey and have him meet us at my office as soon as he can.”
     
    “You want to go to this…this fairy land to visit your mother who’s a queen there? Because you think she might know something about a boy missing here?” The brilliant smile Harvey had greeted me with when he arrived at Frost’s office was gone, replaced by a severe frown. He shook his head and then rubbed his hands over his face, as though he were trying to ground himself. “So you are literally a fairy princess.”
    I nodded. “Right. Except I’m half faun royalty as well and the fairies don’t like mixed breeds, so—”
    Harvey held up his hand. “No more. The fairy princess thing is all I can handle right now. What I don’t get is why I can’t go with you.” He shot a glare at Frost and I had the urge to slap him. Sure we were dating and I liked Harvey, but he didn’t get to glare at Frost when Frost was risking himself to help me and this missing boy. Only I got to glare at Frost.
    “You have no fae blood,” Vin said. “You’d probably die if you tried to cross through the portal.”
    “Can we be sure I have no fae blood?” Harvey said. “I’ve got some pretty freaky cousins.”
    Frost leaned in and sniffed Harvey. “One hundred percent human as far as I can tell.”
    Harvey leaned away. “Look, I’m trying to be okay with all of this. Frost is a werewolf, Vin is a faun, and my girlfriend is fae royalty, but please refrain from sniffing me or magicking me for the moment.”
    My heart swelled at the way he’d called me his girlfriend like it was the most natural thing in the world, and I leaned over and kissed his cheek. The look he gave me, though, wasn’t warm, but wary, and my heart sank. I hated that he doubted me even the slightest bit. “No magicking, or sniffing,” I said. “We just want you to work with Mercury to try to find these kids, while Vin, Frost, and I go to Rubalia to find out what’s going on there.”
    Harvey shrugged. “I’ll have to use vacation time, but I’m between cases at the moment, so that shouldn’t be a problem. Give me what you have on the case and I’ll look into it.”
    Frost nodded and slapped Harvey’s shoulder. “Thank you. I appreciate it. If there were any way you could be the one go to Rubalia with your girl, I’d trade places with you.” The smile on Frost’s face looked strange and tense, but Harvey seemed to relax just a smidge.
    “Honestly, man,” Harvey said. “I’m probably not ready for visiting the land of the fae.” He didn’t meet my eyes and relief washed over his features when his phone beeped.