About Saffron Stains
by Alex Draven
33 pages
/ 13300 words
ISBN: 978-1-60370-694-0, 1-60370-694-1
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Jem is tired of watching Kael come and go from the fae court, tired of wondering whether his beautiful lover needs him more than he needs his family. He waited patiently the last time Kael disappeared, but he's not sure he can do it again, and when Kael doesn't come home one night, Jem wonders if it's all over for good.
Kael would much rather be home with Jem than be in the fairy court with his mother and sister, but he has obligations. Obligations that lead to him neglecting the one thing he truly cares about. Can Kael find a way to convince Jem that he wants to come home?
Sample
Before the beginning.
The first night Jem had slept well enough, curled up in the middle of their bed, expecting to find Kael's long fingers tangled in his hair when he woke up.
The second he’d spent sitting at the kitchen table, watching a cold cup of tea, and an unmoving door.
By the third night he was trying to focus scrying spells through desperation and sleeplessness, and cursing the enchantments that obscured even the smallest courts. He was pacing, and uncharacteristically torn between going out to hunt in person and being in the cottage in case someone came.
The fourth night he spent unconscious on Sasha’s sofa, the fifth with a row of empty bottles and thin strands of gossip cutting into him.
A round week since Kael had kissed him and left him boneless on their bed, the white sheets were soaked with watered blood, stained with saffron, sharp with broken glass.
Because the whispers of gossip had not lied.
Because Kael was free from the courts, and still not in their bed.
Because no scrying bowl that could show him that was ever going to show him anything else.