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“Power or not, being sworn in or not,” I said in an even tone, “keep talking to me like that and we’re going to have a problem.” He smirked. “Except the queen took her sword back.”
Why does that matter when he’s never even seen her use it to put niches in their place, …like she needs to do him right now.
I hadn’t been ready for his sudden swagger. It was like he didn’t remember all we’d been through. It was like he somehow thought the old hierarchy was alive, and his place in it was assured.
Exactly.
This was significant in some way, but I had no idea why.
How would you not know when it was spoken about constantly in the last book. I just finished it 10 minutes ago!
Then, unbidden, a thought drifted up. Was she from the same kingdom as Nyfain’s ex-fiancée?
Exactly. She might even actually be that faerie…
Vemar came walking out and did a double take upon seeing me. “There you are, Strange Lady.” He stopped in front of us, hands on his hips.
Wonder where Micah is off healing?..
And there are candles in all the light sockets. That has to be dangerous, doesn’t it?”
🤣🤣🤣 Hadriel 2.0 Dragon style…
“By the way, you have a very ruthless mate. I’m glad I knew better than to mess with him. I don’t think Micah realized what he was getting into.”
🤣🤣🤣
The rage blistered this time, tinging my vision and making me wobble where I stood.
Why isn’t Nyfain feeling this?
The alphas will need to be seen and dressed,
Is he including Micah in this “the alphas”?
He abruptly stopped talking and took a large step back, jostling his people out of the way.
Smart man… er demon.
He grunted as I pounced, using all my strength to rip him over onto his stomach and tear the shirt across his back. His golden scales, broken down his back, glittered in the low light in the room, so fucking beautiful.
How are you going to do what you threatened to do if you flipped him on his stomach? Logic Police.
Hannon said as we made our way to the working shed near the everlass field.
The queen will probably be in there…
the other eyeing one of the cedar trays I’d brought from home.
They are just now noticing the cedar trays?
I didn’t want to spark additional animosity with her and create a larger chasm for Nyfain to cross.
She has zero reason to hold animosity towards Finley. Finley did nothing wrong. She’s the one that lied.
I doubt very much that Finley will respect my position. Isn’t that right, Finley? You never called my son Prince Nyfain, correct? Or addressed the demon king as such.”
She didn’t call,l Nyfain that for a reason. You can’t use him as an example dumdum…
“Here.” Turning from the simmering pot she’d been tending, Delaney grabbed one of the pine trays.
Wrong wood boo.
I’m surprised Weston had an average sort of pack. Large—much larger than most non-royal packs—but tucked away in a rural area, away from court. A wolf of his stature would usually seek to elevate himself.”
He might be royalty..
“The third kind. The one who inherits it and wonders if the role shouldn’t have gone to someone more deserving.” “So the defeatist kind.”
🤣🤣🤣
I’d hoped to change things, but…my life took a few strange turns.”
By going to the faerie kingdom?
he just did so passively, parroting my orders back to me as questions of confirmation.
Not parroting then, rephrasing.
Our head rose into the foliage above us, our body filling the clearing and shoving branches out of the way. My dragon squeezed his eyes shut.
He sounds a lot bigger now.
stood Xavier, Lucille, and Jade, their bearings uncomfortable, their clothes loose-fitting, like the ones I’d brought.
Xavier… Actually, I think all three of them have said something slick to Finley.
“The way Ami—Arleth—handled the situation in Flamma doesn’t sit right with me.
Me either…
“We met her as Claudile, Angry Lady,” Vemar said, spreading his hands.
Lol
You shared a dungeon with some of them for years, did you not?”
Exactly!
but his tone was filled with a deeper kind of knowledge.
Sphinx?
Besides, you do your best work when you’re riled up. I figured I’d…give you a nudge.”
Lol. Big brothers…
He was her cousin and a delight to have around.
Ah, ok. I was wondering his relation to her/them.
“In doing your duty to yourself and your dragon, you will also spark wonder and pride in your people’s hearts. There is no dragon prince with his glimmering golden scales to fly through the sky right now. So it has to be you. Your dragon is a vision, larger than most and so exquisitely colored. You yourself are entrancing.
Well, he’s supporting her despite his cousin being the former queen. Says that maybe Arleth isn’t really the enemy or rather isn’t trying to take the throne back…
“Why isn’t it burning my dress?” Finley murmured as she took the stairs.
Jut shit up and make the damn entrance.
Why he was way up here and not in the kitchens preparing for dinner was anyone’s guess. Mediocre bastard.
🤣🤣🤣
More bows and “miladys” came as the staff pushed to the sides of the stairs to let her down the middle, another first.
Why would they even be on the stairs, normally?
I hurried a little bit because I was still mediocre and didn’t really care that I was supposed to stay behind her. I forced my way to the side of the stairs and then hurried down so I could watch her final descent.
🤣🤣🤣
It wasn’t until that moment of congratulating myself that I noticed the former queen.
Was wondering where she was.
She spoke of the past, of an ideal that had fallen by the wayside. Of a full staff, impeccably trained, and a castle with actual fucking light bulbs so we wouldn’t have to eat by candlelight.
So, if she was from Flamma Kingdom, where were her parents? Were they still alive when she left to marry?
“Mother,” Nyfain said by way of greeting before stretching his arm across the back of my chair, just barely low enough not to be awkward for him. “I’m surprised to see you here, in this kingdom. I was told you’d died.”
Lol
I dipped my spoon in and then just let it stay there for now. There were only so many things I could pretend at one time.
🤣🤣🤣
“Did Father think you were dead?” Nyfain asked. She reached for her spoon again but hesitated and let out a small breath. “So much of this is complicated.”
Yes or no question. I’m trying to teach my 8 year old this concept right now. She’s a grown ass former queen. Lol
He kept Durrel from snatching me, and then the rest of the crew came and threw him overboard.” “What about the other dragons?” Nyfain asked, a growl riding his words.
Throwing him overboard wouldn’t have killed him though… unless he couldn’t swim.
“Durrel…that was the one who couldn’t swim, wasn’t it?” Nyfain asked.
Wow… convenient.
At first I thought there had to be some mistake, so I traveled to the faerie kingdom.”
So she was ready and able to travel a week later, all those bones healed? Cuz Nyfain previously said he went home about a week after his mom’s death…
“You did not suspect that Father would call me home?” Nyfain asked guardedly. She took a deep, steadying breath and locked eyes with him. It looked as though it took a lot of effort. “Yes, I did suspect the mad king would come up with a lie to cover my disappearance. He did it often with his subjects, staff, court, and army.
And yet you took your sweet precious time trying to reach out to him? You could have just told him you’d left his father and not mentioned being beaten to near death! That would have allowed time to heal because he wouldn’t have urgently tried to reach you. He would have came, but there wouldn’t be a need for haste.
“When I realized how long it had taken me to heal,
When you realized? What the hell was Dee for? She knew you had a freaking child that also used to get beaten and also knew his personality, helped to raise him!
“He wouldn’t have killed his heir.” “You are only his heir in name. You aren’t his heir by blood.”
Why did I suspect that from something said in book one about his treatment… maybe book 2…
She took a deep breath. “The king’s animosity toward you probably stemmed from many things, but one thing in particular. The king knew he was not your father.”
Which explains why she wouldn’t mark the king and likely also why he’d beat her. He likely stole her from her chosen mate.
“Not all women will randomly stab someone with a pocketknife, sweetheart,” Nyfain told me, and through his rolling emotions I could pick out his brief flare of humor. “That wasn’t random,” I mumbled. “Or did you forget you had me by the throat?”
🤣🤣🤣
To say I fell hard for him would be an understatement. He was my light in a very dark place, a joy amidst so much anguish.”
So maybe not what I thought then…
“Were you in love?” I asked.
She just said a minute ago “I fell hard for him would be an understatement…” So obviously.
and the only man and dragon I’d been with
Huh. Man AND dragon?
It wasn’t until you were entering your teens, when you got your first growth spurt, that it became clear you had great potential. That’s when he started to…take you in hand, as he called it.
And where is the commander during his teens? Why would she say Nyfain was too young to remember him or is she skipping over his death and murder on purpose… cuz I’m sure that’s what it will boil down too…
