Page 123 of Kingdom of Betrayal and Unknown

“Yes, Sweets. I am sure. She tried to get rid of the mate bond for her sister so she could be with the Fae, but that is one thing the witch can’t touch. Our mate bond will always be ours, no matter what,” he explains.

Tears pool in my eyes and fall down my face when I blink. Relief fills me at the news, but I can’t help but worry.

“Why do I keep having these nightmares?” I ask. “You have to know,” because I don’t.

I’ve been thinking about the one I had about my mother, and it still seems so real every single time I think about it.

“Sweets,” he gently says, and I know he doesn’t have an answer.

“No,” I mumble. “Please.”

“I don’t know why, but we will get to the bottom of this,” he promises. “I’ll ask our people. We will figure this out.”

I can’t ask anyone or I’ll risk them finding out everything.

“Do you think something bad is going to happen?” I can’t stop myself from asking. “Do you think this is some kind of foreshadow to something that will happen later?”

Kieran shakes his head. “No, nothing is going to happen. That doesn’t happen to humans or Fae.”

“It doesn’t?”

“No, so you don’t have anything to worry about.” He kisses my forehead. “It’s probably you stressing and working yourself up too much about them possibly finding out about us.”

I take a deep breath and slowly let it out. “Right. That’s what I thought at first, and then I felt you tugging the bond and I freaked out a little more,” I mumble.

“It’s okay,” he soothingly says. “I’m not trying to push your thoughts away, but no human or Fae has ever been able to see the future. The witch can’t even do that, not on this realm.”

“But it can happen in other realms?” I look up at him.

He nods. “We know a few people who can do it. We haven’t had contact with them since the curse, but long ago they could. But only for their realm.”

“So, you know about Tarravega?” I inquire.

He chuckles. “What do you want to know about Tarravega? Are you planning on getting banished there? Should I be concerned?”

It’s my turn to shake my head. “No, but I remember someone getting banished there. I don’t know anything about it other than it being somewhere you don’t want to go.”

“We don’t know much about it either. Once you’re there, you can’t return. Unless you know a being who can time teleport, but no one can in Bellhollow,” he explains. “We know there are dragons there. We heard from other realms long ago, before I was born, about a few things on Tarravega.”

“And you don’t know if it’s more peaceful than here? If you traveled there now, would the curse be broken for you?” I can’t help but ask.

There are so many questions running through my mind at the mention of Tarravega.

“I suspect it isn’t peaceful as that’s where all the criminals go. I have no doubt other realms are doing the same. Cillian Blackthorn was the one to start it all.” Kieran pulls me closer to him once I start shivering. “I doubt the curse would disappear if we went to Tarravega. It’s magic, which follows a person no matter the location.”

My shoulders sag at the news. I was hoping Tarravega would be somewhere we could live without the curse.

“I know, little one, we thought the same thing, but it won’t do. Even if the curse is broken, I wouldn’t risk bringing you there.” Kieran runs his hand through my hair. “Tarravega is the last place I would bring you. I imagine not a lot of women go there, and I don’t want other men to think that I am willing to share. I don’t want to always be on alert that someone might steal you away from me.”

“I know,” I mumble.

If I were in his situation, I wouldn’t want to either. There are a lot of things he doesn’t know, which leads to the possibility of bad things happening.

“We’re going to make it through this. It will be hard, but it will make our relationship and bond stronger. Sometimes we might want to give up, but we aren’t going to. We are going to lean on each other when we need to and push each other to make it to the end. Nothing bad is going to happen to us,” Kieran says.

“We are,” I agree.

I hope he can find out how to break the curse soon. I want to be free to meet with him without being concerned about what’s going on around us.