The Seduction of Jac Frost (by Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 12

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Jack moved quickly, blocking the two men and in a move which completely stunned her encased the two of them in what she could only describe as a box made of ice.

“What the fuck?”

“I need you to hear me. I will not remove you against your will from this room if they are truly your mates, but I want to talk and that fucking family is always talking. They talk and talk and talk. It’s annoying as hell. I want to get a word in edgewise and short of slitting their throats, this is the best option.”

She put her hand on the thick ice and blinked in confusion. She could see Wilder and Rafferty screaming and banging on the block from the other side, but she couldn’t hear anything.

“Are you cold?”

The questions surprised her and she turned her head back to Jack. “No. I’m not. That’s weird.”

“It is. Have you ever been cold?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean when you are in the dead of winter, and you go skating dr Skiing or sledding, or hell, just out for a stroll in the middle of

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the night to stare at the stars with the wintry wind all around you, do you feel the cold?”

“Uh, first, I’ve never done any of those things. I am not a sporty person. I was raised to believe I had a serious medical condition which leaves my body deprived of oxygen. I was not encouraged to do anything which would make me turn blue. I was also always bundled up really warm when I go out because the doctor once told one of my foster parents that I’d likely be at risk of frost bite or something because of poor circulation.”

“As if. You are a Frost. You do not get Frost bite. You cause it.”

“I do?”

“You do.” He said gruffly. “You are my princess, my missing child and you were, are, so loved and so wanted. Your family back home misses you greatly. Your mother has not known a moment of peace since you were ripped from her. She is unwell.”

“Like batshit crazy unwell or just a bit sad.”

He made a face, “more of the former and a lot of the latter.”

“You said she talks to flowers?”

“Yes. She swears she hears you in them. She is my mate and my

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impossible to pretend to hear your heartbeat in a flower. She says as long as she hears that heartbeat you are alive out here in the world. If it is giving her hope, then I have not done much to dissuade it.” He reached a hand and took hers in his.

“Huh, no shock or golden rope thing.” She looked down at his hand.

“That would be because we are not mates, my child. I am your father and we are tethered in a family bond, not a romantic one. The bond I have with your mother is gold. Your brother and his mate also have a golden bond.”

“Why do red and green exist at all?”

“Bonds are predestined and we have no real understanding of the why behind a bond. What we do know is golden bonds are the most difficult to break. Red and green bonds can be severed quite easily, with a few chanted words. Red usually denote a passionate and thrilling bond. Think fire and hot lava in an explosion of love and lust. Green is calmer usually a bond which is deeply rooted and tied to family and the earth, placid like a meadow on a sunny day. Your mother’s parents share a green bond, and they are the most peaceful people to be around. Your mother thrived as a child under their gentle, easy nature.”

She ignored the comment about her mother’s parents. The notion of a family tree including grandparents seemed foreign to ho Instead she looked outside the block of ice, frown

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realized she truly wasn’t cold and then asked, “so bonds can be

broken?”

“Yes. They can.” He made a face as if hating himself for what he was about to say, “however, bonds are gifts from the queen mother herself. We do not ever take the destruction of the bond lightly. It is not something you should do without thinking things through very carefully. Red and green bonds can be broken with a special incantation and a witness. A golden one would require the approval of your queen or king, depending on the realm, in your case since you are of my blood, I would be the one to approve it. Then you would meet with a priestess who cannot be related to either bloodline. The priestess would pray on your behalf to the queen mother who rests in her slumber. A special divine incantation would reveal itself to the priestess and she would instruct both members on the incantation to break the bond. With the king or queen present, the bond can be broken. There must be particularly good reason for any bond to break and a golden one, well, that would need a damn good

one.”

“What if I don’t believe in all this fairy mumbo jumbo? Is that good enough reason?”

“Oh my child,” he gripped her by the head and as she flinched at the sudden contact, he pressed a cold searing kiss to her forehead and imparted to her an image of his home in the frozen tundra beyond the northern hemisphere.

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Into her startled blue eyes, he stared, speaking softly, “I am your father. You are a fae. You are the second daughter and third child to the Frost realm and the piece which was meant to make our family complete. As much as I am unhappy with the situation, I do not at this time, agree to your dissolution of your bond but should you, after a trial of getting to know each other better, feel incapable of sealing your bond, then I will work with you and the priestess for the best possible outcome. You should know, in all of our time in this world, no golden bond between three has ever been severed. This feels a divine and wondrous

blessing, and I will need to pray to the goddess myself for her guidance.

“So I can’t just recite something and get rid of them? They’re both very arrogant.” She leaned forward, “they are crude too. In front of their own mother.”

He chuckled, “they are spoiled boys who when they were born were given the world. I have known them since they came into being and to be fair, I always felt sorry for their parents. One fae child at a time is one thing. Royal children can be difficult because they are born with strength, pride, and a ruthless perseverance. She had to deal with two little assholes to control while trying to train her daughter to be queen.”

“Was my brother an asshole as a child?”

“Still is. Did you not hear them? He’s blue all the time. A chip off the old block,” he tapped her nose playfully.

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“This is a lot.”

“I understand. What do you need?”

“To work. I want to work and do what I trained so hard to do. I feel like I finally had this opportunity and it will be taken from me.”

“You can do your work. In the meantime, I beg of you, please think about meeting your family. Your mother is going to be beside herself to be forced to stay away from you.

“Can I think about it?” she asked quietly.

“”

“Yes but I ask you not take too much time. This is not a secret I will be able to keep for too long.”

“Okay.”

He snapped his fingers and the ice blocks were gone. “I will be back.” He cupped her cheek softly and then with a sigh was

gone.

Before she could exhale, two sets of strong arms were flung around her, and she was lifted off the floor.

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