Page 34 of The Dark Fae Princess
“What? Why?” I ask.
“Long story about my brother and his ex-wife…” He waves his hand dismissively but that isdefinitelysomething that we need to come back to.
Later.
Right now, I need him to hustle.
“Look, just slip in, find my mother, give her this…” I take off the gold necklace that she gave me for my sixteenth birthday and thrust it at him, “…and tell her I need to speak to her immediately, then slip back out.”
“Easy as that,” he mutters, but takes the necklace from me anyway. “This is, like, fifty percent of the way towards what we spoke about, Princess, got it,” he adds with a low growl.
I nod quickly. If he does this, as far as I’m concerned, we’re good. All good. He wouldn’t be doing this if he didn’t care about me. He is clearly not happy to be going and would rather doanythingexcept go back there.
Yet, he gives me a grim smile and says, “Wait here.”
He does that Dragon mode of transport, and then I desperately try to avoid Jerrick’s probing look that is unnerving me to the point of making my pits sweat in a very unladylike manner. No wonder he is Head of the Dark Fae Guard. Not only is he large, over a thousand years old and more than adept with magick. His face can make a grown man, or woman, shit themselves when he turns on the menace.
I start to pace and count the minutes, waiting anxiously to see if Trey returns with my mother.
13
Trey
Iland outside of the Fortress and look up at the foreboding structure nestled on a cliff top in the remotest part of this Dragon Realm. I grit my teeth. I’d hoped to have seen the last of this place for a while, hence why I decided to explore my newly unbound Light Fae side and go to live there for a while. I wanted to get to know my mother, who we’d assumed dead all this time. Well, who our father had told us was dead all this time.
I grimace when I think about my brother, Rex. I needed to get away from here to gain some perspective on our relationship. We used to be close, once, when we were young Dragons, but everything changed when he met that bitch Lianna and married her. She tore us apart at the seams and enjoyed every second of it. She played us against each other and while I knew exactly what she was doing, Rex chose to believe her lies and it made him hate me.
It hurt.
A lot.
So much, that I wanted revenge. I fell into a dark place and started messing with black magick, which I regret now. I regret everything that I did to him while I was here. But I know I won’t be given a chance to explain or apologize. If I’m caught, I’m a goner.
And all for a bewitching, utterlyenchantingcreature, that also happens to be the Empress’s sister.
“Fucking great,” I mutter. “How do I get myself into these situations?”
Time is ticking on.
I’m going to have to make a move soon.
The only way this is going to fly is if I get to Savannah’s mother straight away and explain what I’m doing here.
The second I Astral my ass into that Fortress, the guards will know I’m there.
“I know you’re worth it,” I continue to mutter out loud. “But you fucking owe me, Princess. Big time.”
With that said, I take a deep breath and Astral into the Fortress, outside the room that Aefre and Remiel reside in.
I bang on the door quickly. “Aefre?” I call out, almost desperately.
She opens it a moment later. “Rex? What’s up?”
“It’s Trey,” I say quickly and watch as her green eyes go furious and her cheeks go red with anger. “Savannah needs to speak to you immediately. Please. She said to give you this, so you’d know I was telling the truth.” I dangle the necklace in front of her.
She stares at it, her eyes going ice cold. She snatches it off me. “Savannah? How do you know my daughter?” she spits at me.
I look over my shoulder, knowing that the guards will be seconds away from tearing me to shreds. Rex won’t have taken any chances with me returning here.
