The Seduction of Jac Frost (by Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 79

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Jacqueline sat up with a start in a body that felt far colder

than it should have been. While she’d never really felt the

cold, this time the frigid air around her nearly burned.

Unsurprisingly, the first person who noticed her sitting up was Jack. He bellowed out her name and when she turned

her head to look into his eyes, a big smile pulled her cheeks.

A bond, a familial link, flared between them and she felt the

warmth of his love spreading through her limbs.

“Jack!”

She croaked his name and the sound from her lips made the high priestess stop her chanting and look at her in wonder.

Jacqueline knew her legs would not carry her yet. They’d been immobile in wintry conditions with icy water lapping at her. She whispered to the priestess, “shut it down.”

“Yes my queen,” the priestess let the barrier fall with a few whispered words.

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Watching Jack rushing through the water until he reached her to rip her off the altar and into his arms, Jacqueline felt a thudding in her chest which caused her to gasp back a sob. He was openly weeping into her hair as he cuddled her to

him. He carried her out of the water.

“Wait,” she whispered before he could leave the temple with her. “Jack wait. I have instructions I need to pass on.”

“No. You need to warm up. You need food and drink.”

“Brother, I will allow you to coddle me all you want but

first let me address my priestesses, please.” She cupped

his cheeks, the warmth of his skin under her fingertips comforting. She turned his head, so they were cheek to cheek.

looking at all the priestesses who were now on their knees

in the shallow part of the pool in a collective. They were

waiting, desperately, unwilling to move until she gave them

directive.

Jack nodded and adjusted her in his arms so she was completely facing them, his arms a makeshift throne from where she would deliver her message from the Queen Mother.

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his body heat.

“My sisters, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your love, your prayers, and your dedication. The Queen Mother and I are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of affection and the way you shielded and protected me while I spent my

time with her.”

“You are her one true daughter.” The high priestess spoke

reverently.

“I am and she told me to tell you all, she sees you, she is proud of you, and she loves you. Your powers, her blessings, will continue to grow and manifest. You must continue to serve in love, community, peace, and harmony, in the way she always wanted for fae to be. I will be a special conduit for you. You prayers will not only continue to be heard but I will be able to bring you answers in real time for the matters which are most important. Know that she trusts you still, as she has all along, to guide and lead in her absence.”

“You are the Queen of Kings and Queens.” Another priestess whispered and Jacqueline recognized her as the girl who had

knelt on the floor.

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community. I will need you, all of you, at my side.” She looked back to the high priestess, “we will travel to the Southern Realm. There are rituals to perform there as well. Our worlds will be more connected, more in line, more like the

community it was always meant to be.”

“Yes my queen.” The priestess smiled.

She turned her head to look at Aspen who was staring at her

in awe, “sister, great blessings are coming your way. I was asked to deliver a very personal message for you.”

Aspen stared wide–eyed at her.

“You are enough. All on your own. Without anyone else. You

are enough.”

Aspen’s eyes watered at the words.

“Do not let the failings of fae who forgot who they are

diminishing their own value steal the light which is yours to

hold.”

“Thank you, my queen,” Aspen whispered.

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“sister.”

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“I would like that very much.” Aspen nodded shyly, “sister.”

She turned her attention back to Jack, “now, brother, I am still quite cold. I would very much like a warm place where I can recover the feelings in my fingers and toes.”

“You call me brother,” Jack’s eyes were wet. “The priestess says you are the true daughter of the Queen Mother and yet you call me brother. How is this all possible?”

“You are my brother in blood. Mother needed a place to put the soul of her only child, and she chose our parents to carry me. My blood is their blood. My heart is of her heart. Genetically speaking, we are as connected as any other

sibling anywhere else in the world. I simply have an extra

dose of someone else in the mix.”

He rested his forehead to hers, “you scared the hell out of

me.”

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“I know but you stayed and you prayed and it was your love, your perseverance which pulled me back. I am grateful for you Jack. We are about to embark on a journey which is going to cause you great pain.”

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“Jacinta,” he whispered sadly.

“Yes. She has choices to make and a redemption path she

can choose but those decisions will be hers and hers alone. I

will not ask you to stop loving her because your heart is much

to special for me to do that. She will need your love as surely as she needs the discipline coming her way.”

“She did it then. She really did it?”

“She did.”

“But why?”

“Can we go somewhere warmer and I will tell you all I know?” she lifted blue fingers to his eyes, “I’m not even angry.”

“Sorry. Yes my queen,” he grinned a big toothy smile as he looked to his wife, “our living quarters.”

“Yes.”

He teleported them to a living room with plush upholstered furniture and Aspen was already adjusting pillows and pulling a blanket to cover Jacqueline as Jack set her down on

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the sofa lengthwise. He knelt next to her, fixing the blanket

around her and tucking it over her feet and hands.

“Aspen, we’ll need some hot water bottles or heating pads.”

“Oh, I’ll grab the ones I use when I’m on my period,” she nodded enthusiastically.

“You won’t be needing those for a while.” Jacqueline snorted

and shot a knowing glance at Aspen’s flat tummy.

“Really?” Aspen turned wide eyes to her.

“Yes. My brother’s last visit home alone to you was quite fruitful, according to Mother.”

“She watches?” Jack suddenly pulled his back in disgust.

“No Jack but she does bless unions.”

“She is real. A real living breathing creature?”

“She is divine with no beginning and no end and oh,”

Jacqueline sighed, “she is beautiful. She is a creature worthy of worship.”

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It took no time at all for Jacqueline to feel the warming

effects of the affection from her brother and his wife’s

attentions. She nodded and then cleared her throat.

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“Jacinta touched me in the room where I was being cleaned up for Winika and in doing so, her powers of foresight came forward. She saw me, with my mates, being far more powerful than she ever dared to dream. She saw me with people worshipping and bowing their heads to me. She also saw her being cast aside and looked down upon but for reasons she couldn’t see. She decided at the time since the future can always be altered that if she removed me from the equation, then her future of being humiliated would never happen. Instead, what she saw was the outcome of what she was about to do. It was a warning for her, and she refused to see the full picture, focused only on her own need to feel special.”

“Unbelievable,” Aspen whispered.

“She is always jealous of others stealing her shine, her spotlight, terrified that she would become irrelevant.” Jacqueline gave Aspen a sad smile, “she shunned and tried to embarrass you because she once had a vision of you

being incredibly close to the faceless mate of the Vaughn

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“Fuck,” Jack’s word made Jacqueline giggle.

“Her ego is wrapped in a fragile cloak of a desperate need to be validated. She is spoiled rotten.”

“There was a time when she was not like this.”

“There was a time when she was the only Frost female. She ties her identity very closely to being the perfect princess of

the Northern Realm.”

“Our love was not enough?” Jack questioned quietly as he appeared perplexed by this. “At no time did I ever love her

less.”

“Jacinta has never loved anyone other than the three of you and the Vaughn siblings. She has no concept that the heart can expand to love more. She thinks in order to love someone new, someone older needs to be pushed aside.”

“Like a small, spoiled brat,” Aspen declared as she folded her

arms over her chest.

“Yes.” Jacqueline agreed. “In her attempt to remain loved and adored, she removed what she thought was the one person

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who would change her place in everyone’s hearts. In doing so, she has cemented the future she so terribly feared.”

“So that’s it then. She is to be outcast.” Jack looked away his emotions betrayed by the way his voice cracked.

“Not necessarily, Jack.” Jacqueline took his hand in hers and

held them tight. “There is always redemption, but she has

to want it and has to earn it. The problem is,” she didn’t

look away from him, “the punishment for her actions come straight from the Queen Mother. I am to relay the messages from her and there is no wiggle room in what Jacinta is going

to suffer. Her punishments and how she takes them will

determine how she moves forward in her life.”

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“Do you know what her punishments are already?”

“I do. She saw my bond with the twins and tampered with it,

removing me from their presence because she was jealous of our love. She tried to push Aspen away from you for the same reasons. As a result, she will never experience a mate

bond. The mate who was chosen for her, on the day she moved me from the Northern Realm castle was at the gala waiting for her. The moment she whisked me away; he was given to another whose own mate died before they were together.” 10/13

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“Why do such things happen?” Aspen asked angrily. “Why take away the mate before it happens?”

“We are given choices in life and our choices affect others. In

this case, the mate in question lived a chaotic life and made

choices which led to them indulging in things he never should

have. He died from an overdose.”

“But she would have been punished.”

“She was given an alternate, someone who wanted nothing more than to find their mate and worship them adoringly. Jacinta’s mate was nothing more than a groundskeeper, but he would have loved her,” Jacqueline spoke seriously, “like she was the Queen Mother herself. Instead, Jacinta chose the alternate path and set in motion the events which led to her losing her mate to one who truly deserved it. They have a rather large family, and he is happy with his lot in life. Jacinta

will never know that love.”

“Is that all?”

“Her crimes will be made public and the fae world will know what she has done. It will cause a blemish on her reputation that she may never escape from without serious restitution.”

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“What is the restitution?”

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“Prayer and lots of it. She needs to conform to the laws of

the priestess. She will need to atone and dedicate her life

to proving she is remorseful. Mother has seen, again, two paths set out for Jacinta. One where she makes a choice to

redemption and the other where she refuses to accept any accountability for her sins. It will be up to Jacinta entirely which path she chooses.” Jacqueline squeezed his hands, “but Jack, the same way your love pulled me back here, your

love can help her. No matter the path she chooses, you can

still love the little sister you spoiled rotten with your affection.

She will need you now more than ever.”

“It won’t hurt you?”

“Yes, it will,” she gave a shrug, “but I am learning hearts are not divided into parts which can only be given out in

increments.”

“What do we do?” Jack asked seriously.

“We need her to confess.”

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