Chapter 32 - Shailyn

I fought like hell to get back to my family, but the lengths my cruel father-in-law was willing to go to, just to make me disappear were more than I could overcome.  Old magic, ancient and pure was the only thing that saved my son and me that day.  

I learned much about myself while I was away from my family.  The timing of my birth was used as a distraction to overthrow my father, one of the great fae Kings.  My mother, father, and three older siblings were murdered by an uncle who coveted my father’s position.  If it were not for the actions of a brave young maiden named Charlotte who took me and switched me with a human child who had been still born, I would have also been killed that day. 

In retrospect, growing up I always knew there was something wrong about the people that I knew as my parents.  Curiosity got the best of me when I was a fourteen, sneaking into the file room during one of her many doctors’ visits I wasn’t