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I can’t, in good conscience, hold you any longer. I won’t, in good conscience, deliver you back to that village, for your sake and theirs. You need to be set free.”
That makes no sense. He could have just told her that and asked her if she would like to join him back to help with the investigation. 🤷🏽♀️ Like, why does he think leaving her alone in the world with her magic suppress, it THAT country he grew up in, a good thing?
“Because Granny’s drugs have killed people dear to those in this pack. Some still want you hanged as a representative of Granny’s organization. They are not moved by your circumstances. They want our duty fulfilled. This will appease them.
They don’t have to be moved by her situation but they do have to face the cold hard fact that she didn’t make a dangerous drug and that someone has altered it. That’s like killing the makers of Tylenol because someone keeps stealing batches and altering them to be deadly…
Weston had listened to me in the end. I’d never listened to him, so sure in my product and my relative innocence. I’d trusted Granny implicitly to handle my product with care.
There you go boo…
Give her a chance to clear her name and then she’ll find you again, I know it. At the very least, she’ll find me. I was the favorite, obviously. She and I have a connection, you see. She’ll definitely seek me out when she’s ready.”
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“See there? I proved my point. It could be worse. Like the terror shart I might’ve just released.
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I’m going to go ahead and check things out, probably change my knickers, and then I’ll be right back. You just roar and growl and wander out there in your fabulous nudity and get the show started. I’ll be back momentarily.” He dashed out, holding his ass. He was such a strange wolf, but he did know his stuff.
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Nova grabbed something off the table and walked right, her gait unhurried.
She knows what’s up. Probably all of them.
“The woman has absolutely no sense of direction. She was angling my way instead of toward the town, making enough noise to rouse the dead.” He clasped his hands behind his back. “I pointed her in the right direction and then shadowed her for a bit to make sure she got there. She went off course again—she has literally zero sense of direction and is apparently hard-pressed to follow straight lines—so I guided her until she was close to town and then drifted away.”
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“They had rooms last night,” the boy said, cross now that he knew I wasn’t going to continue hurting him.
Who walks up and kicks a woman in the first place? He’s a child, a boy!
“There are no bad doses at market,” I said without thinking.
Yeah, without thinking cuz, how would you know?
Frustrated, I pushed through the weathered door of the inn, intent on asking more questions. Maybe the innkeeper would have more insight than the young stable hand.
Why is she acting like she isn’t in walking distance of the pack of wolves that would be looking for her this morning? Like she got a helluva head start and is several towns away…
“Sorry, I’m new to all this. The snack boxes count as something harder, then?”
Is she dumb? Why would he be telling her that if he just said they aren’t allowed?
You’ll see the cart halfway down with the purple and black awning. They sell other stuff there, but mainly Granny.
Ok. Why is he telling her where to get it if he just said it wasn’t allowed?
What would I spend it on to even get change?
Well, you’re definitely in the wrong town for that unless you’re looking to get robbed… Need to go somewhere where it’s more common for people to have gold.
“Oh my— No,” I said, aghast. “No! Why would I do that? That’s absurd. Forget the fact that it is just wasting hard-earned coin, but a person should only consume that sort of product after careful contemplation. It’s not something you should just stumble into.”
Now she really is being stupid.
“Oh.” I chuckled, pointing at him. “You were joking about my putting stuff in your drink.” His brow furrowed. “No, I wasn’t joking. Are you new here?”
Stupid.
I needed to back off. I was making a scene and I’d get noticed.
Yep. Stupid. Only a short distance away from where you ran away… smart
The drawing we were given matches your likeness perfectly.” My heart picked up speed.
Now’s the time for Hadriel and the team to show up. This idiot has zero self preservation skills.
“She’s used to avoiding people, I’m sure she’s being a wallflower,”
Not today…
We were halfway into our pint when the guy behind Nova, a man with a mangy, slightly reddish beard and a gross looking glass eye, leaned back a little, getting closer to her.
That’s the guy that brought in the product last night.
They’ll take her to the packing village and make her work there. The production village has been compromised, I guess.
Wow. So she had different villages doing different shit.
She said her horse was lame or something.”
We wasn’t there for that part of the convo…
“What’s that fucking barman’s problem?” Glass Eye asked Dirty Hands. “He’s surlier and surlier every time I come into this damn place.”
Probably because he knows you’re bringing drugs that are ruining peoples lives and killing them.
He could’ve bonded them and stopped them easily but he didn’t. He crashed into their leader, ripping out lumps of flesh before tearing out his throat.
Likely because one of them possibly touched his mate…
I shifted into my human form and hurried to catch up. I rarely did as I was told.
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“He means Granny’s worker,” I clarified, just in case they had a few people stashed in this big place.
Yeah, Weston would need a translator too. Good call.
I relieved her of the key. “I’ll take it from here. Go find a washroom to throw up in. We’ll be gone by the time you’re feeling better.”
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guilt-ridden that I’d left her to fend for herself without some sort of plan to keep her safe,
That part… I just didn’t understand it.
“We were looking in all the wrong places for information,” Dante said
Where is Tanix?
As I was about to stop and make ready to camp for the night,
Didn’t he just saw he was on a narrow road barely large enough for their wagon?
The second one made me feel much sicker, which was odd because there wasn’t more of the waxy stuff on that particular product. I wasn’t sure what to make of that. The third one was like some sort of terrible explosion in my body.
She took all those, back to back, within the span of a few hours…
“They’re taking too much because it is addicting,” Tanix said in a gruff tone.
Oh, there he is…
We’re still not sure if it’s a village or a town or just a house. We don’t know.”
But Hadriel heard them say packaging village.
She shivered as my body quaked, the climax lasting longer than it ever had. I had just enough awareness to wonder why that was.
Is she pregnant?
“What sort of poisonous effect would be so incredibly addictive?” I murmured. “I took another of Granny’s doses last night—“
Lordt…
I was no longer a captive, not like before. I’d have a say in my life, especially in the parts that held the potential for danger.
So, how is your accidental death going to help anything?
“Is that what you call it when you bash my head in? You used one of your precious elixirs for that, didn’t you?”
He didn’t do it. He tried to stop it. That was all Cloven Dante…
I didn’t deliver myself into your care so that you could control me or push me around.
You didn’t deliver yourself into their care. They had to come rescue your dumb ass.
I wasn’t that naive, though. Everything would change when we got back to the dragon lands. He probably had a huge line of hopeful suitors. I was a mere distraction. What a fool to think I could be anything more. What ridiculousness to want it. I ignored the sting in my heart that accompanied those thoughts.
Author, considering what’s happening in this scene, these thoughts don’t even make sense here. They are in a heated throw of passion, having rough sex. There’s no way her mind would be capable of going there. And they are still going? It’s ridiculous.
“Do I look like a headstrong-woman whisperer to you?”
Yes.
Oops, there’s a dragon. I do not want to alarm anyone, but it is not pleased with this fire in front of us.” “I feel slightly guilty for suddenly enjoying myself,” I murmured.
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fire. It is jealous as all hell. Of what, I have no idea. It’s just sticks, man! That fire is eating sticks. What, do you think the ground is outdoing you?” She chuckled, shaking her head. “It’s just sticks!”
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“I’ve heard of these types of things happening before. Don’t let the crunch of your bones worry you. Just think like a lake and become liquid. When the tree rolls away, we’ll spring up like wild flowers!”
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When I did her product again, it would be with her, there could be no question.
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“Who do you look like, your mom, your dad, or the butler?” I asked.
Lmao
“What, now you want to live the rest of your days as a bachelor?” I smiled,
That dumb ass comment didn’t even match what he was saying…
“Listen, Aurelia, there’s something I need to tell—“ Suddenly, the emberflies
And of course there’s an interruption as he’s finally about to come clean.
“My sentries would’ve seen it.”
You could easily check in and verify that.
They didn’t have my royal training and experience.
You don’t know that. You do know though that the royal family knows of her existence and value.
Do you think the enemy knows your name? Fuck.”
Yes.
