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)
“And then Dean won’t get what he needs.” I didn’t mention that Evan wouldn’t get what she wanted either, but I didn’t need for him to know about my connection to his sister.
“Which is why you’re still alive,” he said and stepped back. He moved to the chair someone had placed by Dean’s bedside. “I’ll stay here with him tonight. You can go. Just know I’ll be watching you.”
Arrogant prick. But I could do nothing to him, and my head ached worse than it had before. I was starting to question things that had been firm reality for me only days ago. The ground beneath me was starting to shake, and I didn’t like it one bit. I turned to leave. I would go back to my room and try to find a way to barricade the door so Casey couldn’t come in and fuck me up some more.
“And Liv? What do you think Myrddin would do if he ever found out that it was you who saved Sarah, Felix, and Mia that day?”
My blood threatened to turn to ice in my veins. I turned, not able to keep the shock off my face. “What are you talking about?”
The smirk was back. The “I know something you don’t know” smirk. “I’m talking about what happened the day Sarah went missing. The day your master announced that my companion would make him a lovely bride.”
The smirk had transformed to a deadly look as he completed the sentence.
It was my deepest secret, and my enemy knew. “How do you know that?”
“It doesn’t matter how I know. Only that I’m sure you were the one who used the sphaera motus to transport Myrddin away, thereby giving Sarah and Felix time to get out. And time to activate the wards she’d placed on her apartment long before. They held for years, and those wards are the only reason Myrddin didn’t get to use that dagger on me a second time. We were safe behind those walls, and you are the reason for that. I wonder what he would think. Maybe I’ll tell him one day. Maybe I won’t. I suppose that depends on how you treat the people I care about. Good night, Liv.”
He might not call himself a prince, but he had the royal dismissal down to a science. He turned his attention back to Dean and I walked away.
But I knew what I would do.
I was going to heal Dean Emrys, and then I would find a way to deliver him straight to his father.
Chapter Seven
Kelsey
I was still thinking about Casey and Liv hours later as the moon slipped under the horizon and the stars became the only light to see by out in the wild. I’d been told the moon would rise again in a few hours and this was the moonlight kingdom’s version of night. I stood on the balcony, the velvety darkness all around me.
Inside the suite Gray had shown me to, there was soft candlelight filling the space thanks to magical candles I’d been informed were made in the village beyond the woods.
The evening had been spent with Tix telling me everything I needed to know to be an informed lady of the manor, and none of his words penetrating my brain.
What was Casey doing? He was going to push Liv over the edge.
And a voice inside me insisted that might be exactly what she needed.
I rather thought that idea came from my wolf. She often thinks more clearly than I do in times of crisis. And sometimes she’s a ruthless bitch, but I’ve come to appreciate that part of myself.
“Are you all right?” Gray moved in behind me, his hands on my shoulders. “You didn’t clear out the kitchens when they served dinner, so I’m worried.”
Dinner had been excellent, but it was hard when the dinner party had been just me and Gray and Evan, who I swear is hiding something. I didn’t know what, but I’d spent enough time with the princess to know when she’s holding back. She hadn’t eaten much either. Liv had refused to leave her room. I was fairly certain I heard her moving heavy objects in front of her door to keep Casey out. Lee had claimed he needed to watch over Dean. Casey was busy studying up on our predator, and Fen and Trent had still been hunting.
All in all, it wasn’t the family dinner I’d envisioned.
I could lose Liv, and having to face that fact made me sick inside.
“Sorry. I was thinking.”
“About Liv?” Gray asked.
“Yes.” I sighed and turned, wrapping my arms around him and breathing him in. “It might have been a mistake to bring her here.”
What I wasn’t saying was it might have been a mistake to bring her anywhere at all. It might have been a mistake to not kill her.