“Thank the Moon Goddess!” I say. “Help me get her calmed down, please.”His forehead crinkles even more as he quietly closes the door behind him and walks over to the opposite side of the bed from where Miss Angry Britches is standing. “What?” Eli asks, looking around the room. “Rose, baby, what are
*King Gene*I’m steaming with anger as I reach the palace gates, to the point where I’m even feeling physically heated, as though it’s not anger overheating me at all.“Do you think you should remove that, Your Majesty?” asks one of my guards. Only a few of my most trusted men had accompanied me to
Ah, a rush of fine fragrance greets me. I’d instructed the maids to keep fresh flowers in my room at all times so that when I return, I can bask in their luxurious scent. Now that’s true loyalty; I’ll have to reward the maids for a job well done.Moments later, my Beta walks through the door, lookin
*Barbara*Kane must be dead.If he isn’t, he will be soon enough.It’s been more than a day since our last mind-link conversation, and he still hasn’t arrived at the castle to save me from this shithole.Now, he isn’t even answering me on the mind-link! It’s like he was trying to come and free me an
I try not to even listen to him because I know that it will only make me feel worse about what is happening to me, but his words continue to seep into my ears.“For the first few days, my friends assured me that they were on the way, that they would be here to get me out as soon as possible. I waite
*Rose* “Where’s Eli?” I ask. Three of my four men are in my room, looking at me with furrowed brows and expressions of concern. “He’s… taking care of a problem, little flower,” says Tristan. He sits next to me on the bed and feels my head as if I have a fever. “I’m not sick,” I say. They’ve all b
“Shut up, Emily,” he says. I can’t believe the rude insult. I’m being so sweet! “Well, that’s no way to talk to the cousin of—” “Of the king.” He finishes the sentence for me, and I swear, he seems a bit testy. It’s not like he’s the one lying here injured and in handcuffs. “I don’t have time for
*Barbara*“What do you mean he stole your throne?”I think my neighbor here has to be some sort of a crazy person. He thinks he’s King Edward, King Gene’s father? Everyone knows that King Edward and his wife, Queen Marcella, retired to a large palace in the east of the country a few years before the