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Chapter 21
Rath
Igive this fellow who has betrayed Savannah a scathing once-over. She does not need dissension right now and this idiot is inciting a riot if I ever saw it. Holding out my staff, I’m ready to incinerate this vexation on the spot and save Savannah a mess that she needs to avoid.
Theo stops me by placing a hand on my arm.
The reaction that I get to it surprises me. It is like when my goddess touches me. Electric, on fire and makes my blood tingle through my veins in the most delightful way. I suppose it makes sense. He has recently drunk from her and has her blood coursing through him. Looking into his eyes, this may become a problem further down the line. He is clearly falling into some sort of infatuation with me.
“Don’t,” he says quietly. “Let her deal with this.”
“She won’t do what is necessary to those who stand against her,” I tell him.
“It’s just one man,” Theo insists. “And look. He isn’t making much impact.”
I look over to where Jerrick has tackled him and wrestled him to the ground.
“Why does he get to step in and not me?” I ask with narrowed eyes.
Theo shrugs. “He won’t kill him, and secondly, keep watching.”
I do as the young Vampire says. It intrigues me that he seems to know so much about what goes on in Savvie’s head.
Lowering my staff and leaning on it, I see Savvie march over to the mutinous bastard, her wand clutched in her hand. She is furious and quite lovely with it.
“You asshole!” she shrieks, trying to be heard over the noise of the fight and the spectators to this grappling.
Jerrick finally subdues the man for long enough to flip him over, keeping him down with his knee in his back.
Savvie holds out her wand, and a silver ribbon of magick that does something to me on such a basic level, drifts out gently and wraps itself around the man’s wrists, binding him and keeping him in place.
“Why do you speak out against me when you know nothing about this?” she asks him over the hushed silence that has fallen over the Hall.
A circle has formed around her, her subjects keeping their distance from the wild, unknown magick but still wanting to see what happens to traitors.
I leap off the stage to stand at Savvie’s side. Theo follows, and soon all of her men are with her, showing her people that we are united and that if you hurt one, you hurt all.
“You never should have been Queen!” he roars at Savvie. “It should have been the real heir, thetrueheir. Ambrosia was always meant to rule us!”
“Fuck’s sake,” Savvie spits out. “You’re working for her, aren’t you?”
“My loyalty has always been to the rightful heir to the throne!” he declares.
I suddenly recognize this fool as the man who hauled that disgusting little trollop in to see Savvie before she was banished. He is Jerrick’s second-in-command. No wonder Jerrick looks like he is about to murder someone.
Savvie takes a deep breath, her eyes closed. Then she opens them and fixes the traitor with a vicious glare.
“I do not take kindly to traitors in my Kingdom.Iam Queen of the Dark Fae whether you like it or not.”
“Also, your goddess,” I snarl at him, prodding him with my staff. I will not let her forget this important detail. This part of her that makes hermine. I don’t care what she feels about the other men, she will always be the one that I have been waiting for,myother half.
She rolls her eyes at me, but I find it amusing. I give her a big beam, which she can’t help but return.
“Jerrick,” she snaps. “Take him to a cell in the dungeon and find out what her plans were for him. I want to know every single thing she told him to do.”
“Done,” Jerrick growls and hauls the man to his feet, Puffporting out with him, leaving the rest of us on the floor, surrounding Savvie as the rest of her people, gaze at her in awe. This is the first time they have seen her as their true Queen. I have no idea if they believe or accept the fact that she is their goddess; time will tell. But I’m sure that they will follow her wherever she chooses to lead them right now.
“Now,” she states, lowering the wand, but keeping two hands on it. If any of her people try to grab it off her, they will be burned from the inside out. “In light of the news I told you before we were rudely interrupted, my goal is to unite the Kingdoms. The prophecy that I would do this anyway with my half-Dark, half-Light heir is now moot. I will do this becauseallof the Fae are mine to protect. We were never meant to be divided. We were never meant to live as two races. We will unite and live in harmony, intermingled as it should be. Do I have your support to take out their new Queen so that I can accomplish this goal? Do I have your support to unite us all and stop the fighting once and for all?”
