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“Drake,” Aefre warns him. “You may not like her choices, but she has decided what she wants.”
“Later,” he snaps. “You,” he adds to me. “You’ve gotten into the palace undetected before.”
I look away. How does he know that?
“I know every move you make, Fangboy,” he drawls. “You think I’m leaving a Vampire to run loose amongst my people?”
“You didn’t know he was screwing your granddaughter,” Trey barks out with a laugh.
My eyes widen as Aefre’s go so round as she looks at me, I think her eyeballs might fall out of her head.
“I—I…”
“Oh, save it,” Drake hisses. “I will deal with that later. And you,” he adds with a dark undertone that makes me shudder. “Point is, you are our secret weapon.”
I chew the inside of my lip, still wondering how he knew I’d gone there. Then it all becomes clear. The unicorn. He had to have been following me. I can’t help the growling of my stomach as I remember drinking his blood, how it tasted, the boost it gave me. I was warned to not drink the blood of the Light Fae during the battle. It is like a drug, Aefre and Vito told me. I haven’t fed since the other night when I snuck out to see if Elrich was around to offer up. He was, and now his blood is all I can think about.
Aefre gives me a pitying look and holds out her wrist. I flinch from it as Drake growls at me and takes a menacing step forward.
“I’m fine,” I say, pushing her arm away. It just isn’t happening with Savvie’s mom. No way. I’d rather starve. “What do you need me to do?” I ask as a distraction.
Drake gives me a withering glare that makes me want to crawl up my own ass for asking a seemingly stupid question. “Kill him, obviously. Trey will cause a distraction byflapping around the palace.” He turns to Trey. “You’ll probably take fire, but you’ll live.”
“That’s your great plan?” Trey scoffs and then wishes he hadn’t as Drake’s gaze goes so icy, he starts to freeze Trey where he stands.
Literally.
“Hey!” Aefre says, “Unfreeze him. And come again? I can do that?” Her amazement at being able to literally freeze people on the spot makes me chuckle.
“Oh, if only you knew what you could do with your powers, girl. Too bad you won’t let anyone teach you,” Drake says darkly. “If you lived here, you’d learn quickly.”
“Pass,” she says hastily, but even I can see the wheels turning, and I don’t know her that well at all.
Drake apparently does and gives her a smirk, but then turns back to me. “You have a problem with murdering Anders?”
“Err, no,” I say quickly. I don’t. I want to kill him with my bare hands. “But I’m still a young Vampire, and that is all. I have no power. He will annihilate me.”
“You fear death?”
The challenge is obvious.
“No!” I exclaim. “I would die for Savvie. But what’s the point in me dying if I don’t kill him first?”
“Your speed and strength will be your weapons. Anders is a foolish child.” He dismisses my concerns with a wave of his hand.
“A child that is over three thousand years old,” Aefre mutters under her breath.
“Oh, great,” I also mutter. But if this is the only way to save Savvie, then I’m all in. “Okay,” I say with a nod. “But I want a fool-proof plan. No winging it, err, pun not intended,”I add to Trey. “We need to do this right as we have only one chance. And we are going to need backup. Lots of it.”
“And you shall have it,” Drake says to me with a smile that chills my already cold blood.
Chapter 10
Savannah
“No,” I protest for the hundredth time. “I’m not doing that.”
“You have to,” Rook protests back, getting exasperated with me. “Until Anders is dead, this is your best shot at surviving this. Unless you want to go to him?”
