Total pages in book: 153
Estimated words: 144404 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 722(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 481(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 144404 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 722(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 481(@300wpm)
I’d made the decision to go all in with my bestie. Sure, she’d gone Dark Willow on me and things looked super bad, but I was choosing optimism today. I’d had every chance to kill her when we’d fought in the Under a few days ago, but I knew where she was. I knew how she felt.
I remembered the day when I’d thought all was lost and I’d tried to end it. Liv had been the one to hold me together, to beg me not to let go.
I still loved her. I had to take this chance. But I wasn’t going to make the king take it, too. If he had a better plan, I would listen to it.
“The wards I had our witches place around Ms. Carey’s room will hold her,” Sasha assured him.
“They might not stop me.” The queen sat beside her husband. Zoey Donovan-Quinn was going to be the hardest one to deal with. Sasha seemed like a perfectly logical general in this war we found ourselves in.
Zoey was running on pure rage, and I didn’t blame her.
Liv had tried to kidnap her children more than once. Liv was one of the reasons Rhys, Lee, and Evan had been forced to run.
And I still couldn’t give up on her. Not until I had a chance to break through. “I need a couple of days with her. She still cares about me.”
“Why would you think that?” the queen asked. Though I happened to know she was pregnant, too, she did not have my appetite. She had a cup of tea and the tiniest bit of toast on her plate.
Sometimes I felt like a hulking monster to the queen’s gossamer Fae creature.
Oh, ribs would be nice. See. My brain doesn’t need a reason to think of another meat to eat.
“Because she basically told me she did. In a super creepy, ‘I want to take you home with me and brainwash you’ way,” I admitted. “But I think that was progress. Look, Liv is still in there. I really believe that she wouldn’t have killed me and that she was only going to bring in your daughter because she was ordered to by Myrddin.”
“So that’s fine?” Devinshea Quinn finally spoke up. It’s weird because the man does not have a problem talking. “It’s great that Liv nearly killed our children because she was only following Myrddin’s orders.”
“Says the man who had a thrall stone in his head for years and didn’t even know,” I shot back because glass houses and all.
“I never did anything that went against my moral code,” Dev replied, his emerald green eyes steady on me.
“No, the magic he used on you was softer. He took a piece of her soul, Dev.” This wasn’t a thing I was willing to back down on.
“A piece she gave willingly, according to every report we’ve had.” Donovan sat back, looking every inch the King of all Vampire, even in the early morning light.
“Is anyone in a cult truly willing?” I’d had long discussions with Gray about this very issue. Trent was surprisingly cool with Liv being here given that he was one of the people she’d tried to capture over the years.
My husbands. It was still weird to say since in my head we’d only been married a couple of weeks. They’d had twelve years without me. Twelve years to form a family.
I really hated Myrddin Emrys.
“She saved Sarah, you know.” I had put everything I’d learned from the angel known as Duffy in a report. I’d gotten a magical replay of what happened the day Myrddin took over. It had been my bestie who gave Sarah the chance to get her family out.
Duffy had been trying to show me the way to the portal Sarah had used. It would have been great because then we could have opened that sucker and popped her and Felix and Mia right back onto the Earth plane.
Yeah, that would have been awesome.
Except the queen blew up the building and the freaking portal along with it.
“We don’t know why she did what she did,” the queen replied. “And that was a long time ago. She’s changed. I do understand what she meant to you, but I don’t know if that woman exists anymore.”
I pointed a wing her way. “I’m telling you that she does. She’s in there. She’s angry with me for leaving her.”
“You didn’t leave her,” Dev protested. “Her boss had you sucked into a magical painting. He meant for that to happen.”
“So he could have more influence on the king,” I pointed out. “And that’s not what I’m talking about. After what happened in Wyoming, I kind of sank into my life and forgot about her.”
Another thing I’d thought a lot about lately. I could still remember seeing Liv’s body on the ground, knowing she was dead. Only Casey’s blood had been able to save her, and it had been a close thing. He’d moved her into his place, and I’d told myself he would take care of her, that they needed time.