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“How long did that take me, Zidan?” “Two point seven seconds.” She grinned. “That fast?” “That fast.” “I’m very impressive, aren’t I?” “Indubitably.”
And the way Harveston seemed to single him out had made Remy take it all quite personally.
“It’s good to see you again, Ophelia,” Malekh murmured. Xiaodan was far more brazen, rushing forward to catch the older woman in a joyful embrace.
“Oh?” Malekh’s voice now carried a tinge of mockery. “How so?” Remy bristled. “Because if it was driven solely by its urges, then the corpse in the Archives would have stayed and fought Lady Song. Not attempted to escape. That’s not what something completely shorn of its brains would do.”
That had been the general assumption, but it felt like a blow to Remy, to hear her confirm it so baldly.
“and your lord high steward, Matthew Astonbury, may his soul rest in peace, was being an absolute twat about it.”
She had researched his history somehow, known achievements that the Archives had never credited him with.
Remy, far from being grateful, was beet red. It was one thing to be indiscreet with someone else’s wife, but another to announce it to the queen. He wished for the ground to open and swallow him up, but he had never been so lucky.
Xiaodan’s smile was as bright as the sun. In contrast, Zidan Malekh’s scowl was like a thundercloud on the cusp of a terrible storm.
he’s always been the brains between us two. I’m just the muscle.” “What does that make me, then?” Remy muttered. “The bait,” Zidan supplied.
then at least have the fucking guts to say it to my face.”
“The only reason you are here, traveling with us,” he said, “is because she wishes to protect you.”
“Fight me, you say?” Malekh’s sudden spark of interest brought out more of the gold in his eyes. “And what do I get when you inevitably lose this wager?”
you struck me as someone far too kindhearted to turn her down yourself, despite all the years she abused you.
“Young,” he finally said. “Perhaps it was younger than I should have—” “Younger than she should have,”
“It’s those damned corpses Astonbury wanted kept in that oversized ice room of his! They’ve reawakened, and they’re out for our blood!”
even in its shredded state, there was no mistaking the dark clothes the Reapers favored.
“If you think I can’t handle a building full of mutated bastards, then you should have complained more when Xiaodan invited me along,”
“My fiancée grows impatient. The queen is your priority, Riones. We’ll do the rest.”
Only his fangs gave him away—they were long and sharp.
You must be his newest plaything—he always did have an itch for the brunettes.”
“You little bitch!” he hissed. “I’m going to make sure you die slowly.”
and he would die before showing his relief.
“Very fortunate, then, that he is neither of those,” Xiaodan responded glibly.
All of it was lost on Remy, who was only beginning to understand the extent of what he’d just signed up for.
THE SUN VAMPIRE: ATROCITY OR IRONY?
I’m too strange for the dræfendgemot, too scandal-ridden to ever truly be a part of them.
most of the citizens were ripe for guilt.
“And now the Great Mother, the Kindly One, the Just and the Merciful—it is for our sins that she has sent this plague upon us, as punishment for our selfishness!
He was used to being mocked. He was used to being whispered about. But never so openly before.
“Only doing what I was ordered to do, Pendergast,” Riones said heartily.
ablution
That Malekh was with her was the surprise, the noble eyeing his admittedly semi-dusty surroundings with a faint whiff of disapproval.
She was unsettlingly attractive as always, dressed in a simple green qipao that showed far too much leg
Wellsmith went out of his way to implicate you.” “But I’ve never even met him.” “Someone could have paid him to lie,”
“Far more than several days. All while someone claiming to be Wellsmith had been answering Feiron’s questions,”
Xiaodan looked pleased, grinning at Remy like she was expecting him to applaud her on Malekh’s behalf.
He frowned at something he saw there but otherwise remained silent.
Is that guilt I hear, Pendergast?”
It would be easier to move about the region having you with us than without.” “I thought you didn’t want me along,” Remy muttered. “I never said that I didn’t want you.”
“I’ll go where you both go,” he found himself saying, feeling strangely at peace with the words.
YUHHHHHH
“We do not just fight for Aluria, Remington. We defend Aluria, first and foremost.
She grinned, impish, then glided closer. “Do you have a problem with my fiancé, Armiger Remington?”
And Malekh. The man made him nervous. He didn’t like the way the lord watched him at times. It stirred up odd emotions that he didn’t want to dwell over.
“Like hell I will. I’ll tell them you’d found it all out, and they can choke on it if they want.”
Ligaya Bascom Pendergast, it read in flowing script across the smooth marker, and then Beloved Wife and Mother, though only one of those had ever been true.
“Zidan calls them helhests. I call them Peanut and Cookie.”
One of the hell horses neighed at him, revealing a pair of perfectly formed fangs as it did. “I think he likes you,” Xiaodan said with every show of sincerity. “They’re gentle, you know.”
“Considering that we’ve let you accompany us, helhests are manageable in comparison.”
but the funny thing about vampires was that they didn’t see being undead as a curse.
