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Gia opened the top drawer of her opulent desk and rees until she found what she’d been searching for and held the book out topatiently until I took it froe is Miss Rain’s debts"

Though the items listed ritten in Chinese, the numeric value of the debts ritten in standard nue, and they took up the full left-hand page The tally at the botto

It had also been crossed out with a red pen and the number zero had been added beside the strikeout "It shows here her debts were paid"

"No, my dear It shows there her debt has been absolved"

"I don’t understand"

"One does not sied, services rendered These things are often done with proreat wealth or treasures"

"Kellen had the money to pay for this" I pointed to the massive number "Even if she didn’t, her fa it sound as if she couldn’t live up to her end of the bargain?" A cold chill had set up shop at the base of h

I’d never had to deal with the mob or debt collectors--not the kind who broke li away your television, anyway My experience was only inKellen’s debt was absolved sounded a hell of a lot like a euphe Kellen would be senseless She was loaded, and to the Rain family the aht make Lucas mad to pay it, but it certainly wouldn’t ruin the other than money," Gia said "And she couldn’t deliver"

"What did she promise?" Holden asked before I had the chance

"She promised herself Kellen fell in with a fairy named Brokk who trades in pure happiness But happiness like that comes at a cost, and Brokk has his requests The time came where she had to fulfill, whether she liked it or not"

I went rigid in aze shifted froain, and this time I didn’t feel any of the friendliness or waresture Noas just as cold and empty as the people who frequented her club

"Who is the fairy she owes a debt to?" My voice squeaked as I spoke

"A h about the high fae to know this was no laughing matter If olf royalty was archaic and a pain in the ass, fae royalty was on a whole other planet of absurdity

A literal other realm

"She made a promise to a fae?"

Holden cursed behindIt was possible Des to a fae You couldn’t even thank a fairy without the it meant you were in the red with them Kellen couldn’t have known the implications of her actions

"She didn’t know," I told Gia "There was no way she would proirl caer as if I was supposed to understand the story the Chinese scraas telling me "She made her bed And now she will lie in it Perhaps it will not be so bad for her He does specialize in happiness after all Maybe you should let her be"

"Where is she?" I deer down on Gia’s desk

The sone "She is beyond the gate Your friend has been taken by the fairies, child You will never see her again"

Outside the air had a chill to it, re to easily yield to su in front of it while I waited for them to show up Leave it to Kellen to fall into debt with the fae and be spirited away by the fucking fairies

"What does she mean taken by the fairies?" Des?"

I shook my head "Remember when I took you to the Oracle?"

He nodded

"We were beyond the gate then"