The Love Commission
Vicki Ballante
Gelsey
is a savannah sprite—a fairy in Africa who works to preserve the earth. She’s a
pro at eco-balance, but when the fairy queen gives her a commission to become a
human to learn the meaning of love, she’s miserable. She has to give it her
best as it’s the only way to get her dream job—to save the African Wild Cat.
After a short time in her new life, Gelsey
is swept into the world of Evan’s love. Now, she must make an impossible
choice—give up her life with the man who owns her heart or lose her fairyhood
forever.
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The queen
must have chosen the noisiest moment to give her the commission.
“You are
to enter the human world…as a human.”
Gelsey
blinked, her wings trembling against her back. Four fairies had entered the
human world and only one had come back safe, having succeeded in her
commission. Two others had remained human, and the last one had been killed.
“I don’t
understand….”
“You are
a young fairy who has an amazing ability to calm down the most frightened bird
or insect. I believe you will be as suitable for this commission as you are
beautiful and humble. You know you aren’t perfect. Someone humble enough to
admit her weaknesses would be just right for the human world. You won’t lose your
personality at all when you take your new form. You won’t even lose your wings.
They will merely remain dormant. You will be divested of some of your powers,
though. But your power to calm down the distressed will remain. That power will
enable you to succeed in your commission.”
“What am
I to do?”
“You are
to marry a man for a year. You will find out why the humans want love and sex
but not children. As you may have learned in your studies at nature school,
Homo sapiens reproduce differently to fairies. They reproduce by sex between a
male and female. But the species have devised several means to prevent babies
from being formed in the female body even though they continue to have sex.
This has lowered the reproduction rate of the creatures who are important for
the balance of the earth, specifically in South Africa. For this purpose, I
want you to enter into their world and feel what they feel. You are to know
what it is to love a male human with their type of love. You will go at the
first break of spring and will be able to return home at the start of the
following spring. We will give you your own vial of fairy dust. The gold dust
should be used only twice. The first time is when you find a suitable man to
marry. When you find someone who is single and who cares about the balance of
nature, you must sprinkle the fairy dust on his head. The magic will make him
want to marry you. Once the magic has worked, you cannot find another man. He
is the one for you. If you mistakenly choose a married man, you will get one
more chance.”
Gelsey’s
wings beat against her back until they ached. Become a human and marry one? How
would she know what to do? And a whole year? She would miss out on spring. It
had been a long, cold winter, and she wouldn’t get to see or hear all the new
baby birds or play with the flying ants when the rains came.
“The
second time you should use the fairy dust is to come home. You are to sprinkle
the dust on the man you have chosen to make him turn away from you. He will
forget every instant shared with you. He will forget his marriage, and so will
everyone he knows. Then you can come home without arousing any suspicion. Ziana
will explain where you are to go and what job you will take on in the human
world to make you fit in there. You have a month to find this man you are to
wed. While you are married to him, you need to find out from him or anyone else
you meet, like other females, the reason for the humans not wanting as many
children. You are to research your own emotions and those of the male’s, and
work out what is happening to humans to change their future.”
“What if
I don’t find anything of importance?”
“By
becoming one of them, you will automatically understand how they think and what
is happening in their hearts. Although you may not comprehend in the beginning,
marrying a male human will help you to understand. Well, that’s what we
believe.”
Gelsey
wasn’t so sure. The queen had much more wisdom than the general fairy, but what
if she didn’t know everything? Fairies knew little of the human world. They had
never understood humans and their strange behaviors.
“If you
succeed at your commission, you will be promoted to Head Endangered Animal
earth fairy for South Africa.”
Gelsey
gasped. To be able to save an animal from extinction had been her dream for
years. But could she fulfill this commission?
Author Bio:
Vicki writes erotic
and fantasy romance. She loves taking her characters into an alternate world
where strange and sexy things happen. She lives with her patient husband and
three noisy kids in South Africa. In between being a busy stay-at-home Mom who
hates housework and spends half her life cooking everything from scratch, she
runs several blogs, writes under another name, and buries herself in the delightful
world of her characters.
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