*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
It shouldn’t be a very hard job since Stephen’s troops are amassing on one side of the castle. Kane’s are on the other. They are trying to surround us, but our troops outnumber them greatly, and we have each sent for more warriors from our packs. They will come in behind our enemies, and soon enough
*Gene*“These fucking incompetent people!” I holler, speaking to no one in particular except myself. Not a Goddess-damn one of these imbeciles I call servants can tell me where the fuck Alpha Tristan is in this blasted place. It’s my own damn palace; people should be bowing to me, not to that idiot!
I nod. “Yes,” I say. “She was over there ranting and raving, and Mark came running in, and then she was gone.”I’m still so confused about what happened. I’m not one to believe in ghosts, but this whole palace is a little creepy sometimes, and with all the death that’s happened from all the wars in