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Time hadn’t stopped for them. They wouldn’t have much longer on the throne before it was time to pass it along.
Which means your ex should also be old…
Years ago, there had been rumors about the queen’s memory starting to slip. No one had been allowed to talk about it. I wondered if that had progressed.
Years ago? You’ve had no news of outside the kingdom for the last 16 years though…
Queen Ayre clapped, her eyes lighting up. “Oh, congratulations, my dear. That is wonderful! No wonder the big, brooding dragon was carrying you—”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“I know far more about that kingdom than anyone else,” I replied. “Even its allies. I’ll tell you more when we have some privacy.”
No, Finley does…
“I know something of dragons, so with respect to your mate, I will be vague,” he said. “I am sad that your journey took you away from here. Selfishly, I had hoped you would stay.”
That’s not respectful because you should have said it when she wasn’t present.
“The staff had no idea, trust me.”
🤣🤣🤣 The staff! 🤣🤣
She leaned back into me. “I’m mad at you.” I laughed. “You certainly seem like it.”
Lol
“I love you,” I told her, laughing. “Well, with choices like that, no wonder.”
🤣🤣🤣 Wow.
I hoped it would deter her from taking out her jealousy on Finley.
I mean, she could try but… 🤷🏽♀️
Some things can’t be helped. I love you both.” He pulled back, his brow furrowing. I laughed and pointed at his chest…and then moved my finger down to indicate his cock.
🤣🤣🤣
“Very interesting bush just there,” I told her. “We naturally had to examine it from every angle.”
Lol
If you prove your worth, I can almost guarantee you’ll be invited back.
Prove her worth. In another King’s garden? WTH?
Dee grimaced, but the promise was out. We couldn’t take it back now. We’d just have to hope they couldn’t manage to care for the plants on their own.
She doesn’t know that’s the magic lady.
Calia looked back again, spying a staff member with a carafe of wine. She stared him down, but he didn’t budge.
🤣🤣🤣
and then one day we’ll lust after you and be treated to flight training via Finley’s dragon.”
Lol
and the whip-toting lady’s maid who just wanders around the castle talking to people…” Calia laughed, holding her belly.
She just realized Leala was being a spy like herself. 🤣🤣🤣
Calia’s smile had slipped. She coughed politely into her napkin before taking another sip of wine. “I’m fine.” She shook her head, patting her neck now. Then coughed again, her brow pinching together. “Too much wine?” Dessia asked, sitting forward and turning, bracing her hand on the back of her sister’s chair. “That’s only my second glass. That’s…” Her face flushed, one hand on her stomach and the other now gripping her throat. Fear sparked in her eyes.
Someone tried to poison Finley!
Her smile was pained, but it was there. She closed her eyes, and I motioned for Nyfain to lift her up. He did so as I ran my arms across the place in front of her, knocking glasses and plates and utensils to the ground.
And where is the wine he’s supposed to be holding?
“It means her throat has closed up,” I said as Hannon jogged back in with two mugs and a small pot filled with steaming water. “It means we’re on the clock. There should be plenty of time, don’t worry.
You’ve got plenty of time AFTER her throat has closed up? 5 minutes is not plenty of time…
“Here we go,” I said again, and handed the syringe to Hannon. I picked a spot between the muscles in her upper arm. “Here.”
I thought she just said chest? She went from arm to chest and then back to arm?
Maybe not wine. You’ve probably gone off wine now, but something else. Maybe something stronger? Preferably not poisoned, am I right?”
🤣🤣🤣
“Here we go. Big breath, now. Don’t take your sweet time because you like that Hannon is essentially kissing you. He’s hot, love, but he’s not worth dying over. Come on, big breaths now. I’m sure he’ll let you cop a feel when you’re better.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Don’t be embarrassed about shitting yourself, love,” Hadriel told her, his hand now on her shoulder. “I’ve had experience with that, too. Goddess help me, I sure have.
🤣🤣🤣
“It wasn’t me!” Starvos yelled. “It wasn’t me, I swear. You are here because I am interested in an alliance. I just needed more information. I don’t know what this is about. I had nothing to do with it!”
I believe that Dolion has something to do with whatever happened to his wife the Queen’s memory…
“Well, we all know who did it, don’t we?” Hadriel said. “I mean, who has access to a bunch of plants and also hates Finley? I can think of one…”
I don’t think she’s that stupid after what happened to her earlier today, plus it would make her an obvious suspect…
“I know. And I knew it wasn’t the king trying to poison us,” he said, looking over at me. “I just didn’t want him to think we were behind Calia’s poisoning.”
Somehow I figured that… especially since she was sitting down by them instead of the other end…
“Yeah, that does suck. Except she had sixteen years to find someone else. It’s not like she was mourning you or missing anything.
Exactly
Some things couldn’t be explained, and the feeling of a family member in danger was one of those things.
Yet you didn’t feel it when Dolion had had your father’s head bashed in and was sawing at Dash’s throat?
“I was being spanked by a couple of the servants when I heard what was going on,” she replied.
At least she was honest…
now I’ll sound like a real asshole if I tell him not to call me little buddy.” “I don’t get your logic, but I like the outcome,” Vemar said with a chuckle.
🤣🤣🤣
“Sable!” I barked. “How long?” She glanced at the darkened windows. “A couple of hours.”
So she found it more important to add a little quip in about eating with the unimportant people than to get to the point that Hannon was missing?
What is that for?” Nyfain paused with the robe held out.
Was wondering the same…
A couple years older than me?
Thought book 1 said he was only 1 year older…
Fuck, what if that demon was trying to draw us away? I thought, my dragon scanning the ground. What if their goal is to storm the castle?
I thought that when Sable was told to stay in the room and lock the door.
The faerie guard circled our small encampment, moved from the garden area to a place where they prepared the dead for their transition to the afterlife.
Phoenix? If not a sphinx then a Phoenix?
Sable objected, but her father pulled her in for a tight hug to squash her outrage.
I’m still mad that none of them came and told her anything for hours… even though I’m hoping he’s reborn as his animal. He did say it wasn’t time yet and that they were waiting for something.
certainly not because they harbored a slender hope, like I did, that Hannon might walk back out of it at any moment.
I think he’ll walk out too! Or fly out.
As though it were waiting for me to notice, the little house that contained Hannon burst into flames.
Phoenix!
The little house was quickly consumed and just as quickly burned down to the ground. The fire must have been magically charged, because matches and fire starter never could’ve created that effect. No dragon could’ve burned it that fast.
Phoenix fire!
The story of the phoenix.
Called it!
He’s even better at landing than us, and it’s his first time trying it, my dragon grumbled. That’s some bullshit.
🤣🤣🤣
“Glad to have you back,” he finished, stepping behind me a little, apparently using me as a shield against showing his emotions.
Men.
“Hell-fucking-o?” I stepped to the side with Nyfain, clearing space for Hadriel.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
A basilisk can’t kill a dragon, in dragon form, with just a glance. It just hurts really badly, apparently.” “That’s bullshit and you know it.” I licked my lips, really wishing he’d believed that.
🤣🤣🤣
“The certain type of magic Calia mentioned, the kind that can control phoenixes, belongs to a basilisk. The phoenix’s one true enemy is a fucking basilisk, Hadriel.
OMG….
“What sort of education involves mythical creatures and their mortal enemies?”
Mythical Creatures and Their Mortal Enemies 201, taught right after Mythical Creatures and Their Attributes 101
She hides her magic for a reason, damn it. The king doesn’t even know. She’s on record as a null.
So… how did they explain their parents’ deaths?
The people who came after her obviously realized what she was. They covered it up and sold the information to…I forget who.
So, it’s not a secret what she is then and now none of this makes sense.
So if people find out about her, then they might want to use her to get to Hannon. Hannon being a phoenix is trouble for her, don’t you see? She wants to keep what she is a secret.”
So it’s Hannon’s fault? WTH kind of logic is that?
Well, there was until a certain handsome dragon also started dressing like a clown and then hanging around.”
He called him handsome…😉
