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“You were busy,” I say. “I’m not going to wait around for any man. My time and attention belong to people who are thinking about no one but me.” Without warning, his hand shoots out and lands on the wall behind my head, boxing me in. He leans down so his mouth is mere inches from mine and bares his teeth. “Then I should get every single minute of your fucking attention.”
“Yes, Daddy.” His eyes flash with something like interest and he grips my arm tighter. “Say that again.” I flush and stumble over my words. “I-I just mean I’m not a toddler. I don’t need to hold your hand in the crowd, and I can walk perfectly fine on my own.” “Right. Fair enough.” He lets go of my arm, but leans closer to whisper in my ear. “But be careful what you call me, Peaches. Next time you say something like that, I’m going to take it as an invitation to spank you.” Um, yes please? Fucking go for it. I would have zero objections to anything Daemon wanted to do to my ass.
“Good. If you knew half the things I’ve thought about doing to any male who looks at you, you should be afraid. As long as I’m breathing, no one will fucking touch you, because I’ll kill them and fuck you in their blood.”
“You’re fucking mine, Alix, and no one but me will ever touch you again.”
“Fine, Peaches. You win. I won’t hunt him down, but if he or anyone else ever touches you again I won’t just kill them, I’ll burn down the fucking kingdom.”
“You’re so fucking perfect,” I say under my breath.
“I hope you do kill me. I can’t think of a better way to go.”
“You make me feel fucking crazy.”
“If you were inside my head, you wouldn’t think I was put together. The opposite, actually. I feel like my brain fractures around you. I’m a fucking mess.”
She cursed the kingdom to be judged on the content of their true character and show on the outside who they are on the inside. She said that the curse would only break when the King of Vernallis admits he is powerless and sacrifices whomever he loves most.”
“I met Aurelia,” she says. I blink, startled. Whatever I was expecting Alix to say, it wasn’t that. I know my mother has been keeping Thorne’s daughter here;
