A Queen of Ruin (Deliciously Dark Fairytales, #4)
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“My animal says we’ll try so that you can have the everlass in your garden.” Great, my dragon had grumbled. I can handle him being the better sibling, since you’re a nutcase, but his animal is more gracious than me, too? Bullshit. Disown him.
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Well, you better fucking learn or else it’ll be us they kill for misuse of power. Dramatic.
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She’d seen this jacket before but hadn’t played by the rules. The second I’d asked her to find the dicks, she was pulling at my pants.
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I’d wanted to know what pegging was, and she’d shown me. Boy had she shown me. I wasn’t sure I’d ever be the same. I definitely-mostly didn’t like it. Almost-mostly hated it a little. Kind of liked it some, but only with a reach-around. The whole experience had been quite confusing.
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We’ve just told you why. We’ve told you her history. Please, have a heart. Keep this to yourself. She deserves peace and safety, doesn’t she, after all she’s been through?”
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Is she pregnant from a demon?
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“But she puts everyone at risk, and I will not let any harm come to Finley.
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Oh, well… maybe not pregnant then. And can’t be the ex.
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Three months later This was it. This was the elixir that would give Nyfain his wings back…unless it didn’t.
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3 months? Why so long? What’s with the time jump? I call bs.
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The leaves kept growing, and in my tests so far, they seemed to work wonders. I hoped they did for this concoction as well.
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So why 3 months?
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“What if it doesn’t work?” I asked softly. “What if I wasted all this time and effort and it doesn’t work?”
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Logic Police … so it’s been three months and Dolion hasn’t attacked, they haven’t been coronated and haven’t went to the council? The curse was lifted so wouldn’t the council members remember that Wyvern was a powerful dragon kingdom and wonder what happened to it? Wouldn’t they realize that it’s been 16 years since they last heard from them? Like, WTH? The author just totally left all of that out, like it was unimportant stuff.
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The only breaks I’d allowed myself were to sleep and bang Nyfain.
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Which were likely a lot of breaks then so… 🙄🙄
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I’m common, and he’s a prince. I’m not meant for this role.
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Actually, he’s not a prince… I don’t think, despite his mother being the queen… since her bloodline wasn’t the royal one.
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I let out a ragged breath before more sobs racked me, all the fear, worry, and anxiety bubbling up and spewing over.
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And Nyfain is feeling all of this…
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He has the blood of a villager from another kingdom and a strong and determined commoner, like us.
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Thought so…
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“Not her. It’ll be Dash we have to worry about.” “That’s probably true. He has found all the secret passages in the castle and gotten caught in countless rooms he shouldn’t’ve have been in.” “Getting caught is his problem.” Hannon rolled his eyes. “Not the lesson he needs to learn, Finley.”
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I stared at him for a second. “How did you know my dragon was holding out on the heat until Nyfain’s dragon could fly?”
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I thought he seemed to be reading minds… but I also thought Govam was reading minds or intentions but he wasn’t, technically…
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And if you never find a miracle cure, well…even stubborn dragons have to face reality eventually.” One day his animal is going to show himself, my dragon thought, and that is the day I’m going to ring his motherfucking bell.
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“Let me in, Mom,” he growled from just outside the doorway.
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🤣🤣🤣 That’s funny. Growling at his mom… I can’t help but envision him as a teenager here.
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She stood her ground, with Delaney right behind her, both of them propping their hands on their hips and swaying a little.
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“Since we aren’t ruled by a paranoid, small man who is threatened by women getting together for drinks and fun. Or are you, in fact, just such a man?”
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Arleth closed the door, probably in his face, and turned around indignantly.
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The door was open? I thought she was talking through the door the entire time with how the description and conversation went.
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Something is amiss, my dragon said, confused. Her dragon is delighted.
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Yes, seems like it because she went from one extreme to the other… real quick.
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Finley continued down the stairs, and I followed. She didn’t spare me a backward glance, but she didn’t tell me to fuck off, either. I considered that a win.
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“Take off your shirt,” Finley said, rubbing her temples. “Me?” I asked, taken aback.
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Hannon jogged into the everlass house, out of breath. His red hair stood up all over his head, like he’d just rolled out of bed.
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What is he! OMG!
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We are still a dragon without wings. A mostly golden one. We can feel confident by her side. Shut up and get out of the way. I’m shifting, he said with a burst of urgency.
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She felt his swell of strength and power as he bore down on her. Fuck, he’s intimating, she thought with glee
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“Does anyone see or smell or hear him?” After a beat she said, “I know that body position, Weston. What are you hiding?”
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🤣🤣🤣 Shouldn’t it be obvious! There’s only one thing he could be hiding…
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A pang hit my heart. This might be a game, but I still didn’t like seeing her that way. My dragon clearly had the same thought, because he slowed a little, giving her a moment to get her bearings. We were fools, the both of us.
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She reached us with teeth and claws and somehow also her tail, spinning and running while still managing to hit us.
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As her rump disappeared, the wolves scattered, and we were left standing there, dumbstruck, our side throbbing from where her tail had pierced our thick hide.
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Finley has always thought very quickly on her feet. Clearly her dragon has the same merits. I was not prepared.
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🤣🤣🤣 Me either.
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Is that the heat? I asked, not recognizing this feeling from the other night.
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Three months ago… 🙄🙄
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The trees swam into view. The ground spun up to meet us.
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Why are they still over the trees? Also, how in the heck did Arleth and the Commander have sex in dragon form, multiple times, with their distinct dragon colors and no one knew?
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“You look gorgeous, dove,” Hadriel said, looking over Leala’s handiwork as she put the finishing touches on my look for the coronation. “You’re going to steal the show.”
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She is the show so…
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Leala, is it me who’s the idiot?” “Yes,” Leala said
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“Other than the demon kingdom, which was a pretty shitty vacation, I’ve never left the kingdom,
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You went to Flamma something kingdom.
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“I thought you didn’t like looking pretty,” Dash objected. “What’s the point of it?” “To make people envious.” Sable elbowed him. “To make them desire you.” “Ew. Finley, that’s not right, is it?”
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was so excited to represent, I barely noticed that weird ol’ seamster talking about getting his eye poked out while fitting me. He’s obsessed with eye safety for some reason.”
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He wore a strange rectangular hat that was likely reserved for religious people (they’d long since succumbed to the demons), and a long cream robe with gold and burgundy lines down the front. A little smile played across his lips, and a strange sheen, like the full light spectrum, filtered into the air around him.
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Angels and demons…
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I couldn’t bear to tear my eyes away from my golden dragon prince, asking me to take his hand and remain by his side forever.
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Is this a wedding or a coronation?
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Nyfain led me to the king’s chambers, moving from the prince’s chambers we’d been sharing since I came back.
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I thought they had been in the king’s chambers all along? I swear he had told his mom she could keep the Queen’s Chambers because Finley would stay with him in the King’s chambers.
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a study, a personal library…and that was about when I stopped looking around. I rushed to the library immediately, nearly knocking off my crown and sending Leala lunging after me.
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Smdh…
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Tears crowded my eyes. “I am literally living my dream right now, Nyfain. The dream I had since I was young. I’ve found my golden prince, and I’ll love my golden king until the day I die.” You are absolute shit at making speeches, my dragon murmured.
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Yep. That was lame.
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“Answer, please, Crazy Lady,” Vemar said.
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Scars crisscrossed his body, caught by the rays, some hidden by the intricate lines of ink that had been drawn over and around them,
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I thought the final elixir had faded his scars? Didn’t his mom say something along those lines in the Everlass shed?
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Dessia, whom I’d never spoken to directly, leaned toward me. She was in her early twenties, with white-blonde hair that framed a very pretty face that bore a close resemblance to her sister’s. She seemed incredibly shy. She always let Calia, a few years her senior, do the talking. Always. Until now, apparently.
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Can’t wait to hear her secret…
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If you can stand their possessiveness, arrogance, growling, and rage issues, and⁠—” “Hadriel, I am getting the idea that you don’t like me,” said Vemar, on Hadriel’s other side for the same reason Hadriel had earned a spot in the seats of honor. He was enjoying himself immensely. “That hurts my feelings.”
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“No, no, it’s fine, really.” I finished reaching for my wine while pressing the back of my hand to my cheek, needing to be grounded by the coolness of my fingers.
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Stupid to continue saying “it’s fine” when you don’t know what’s going on…
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If we left to do that now, we wouldn’t come back before the dinner was over. We couldn’t leave our own coronation dinner!
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Is that really what’s important right now, Finley?
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Nyfain tensed beside me, and a shock of power flowed over us. I groaned within the feeling, fluttering my eyes closed and swaying toward him. Hadriel grabbed my shoulder and yanked me back. “Oh fuck, is this what I think it is? Vemar, look. I wasn’t in the library for the heat-fucking that other time.”
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Lol. I still want to know who was in there… was it the sister faerie? Is that her secret? And if so, with whom?