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Well, you’d better learn how, real damn fast. I am not going to let you die over your stupid control issues. I need you, too, dipshit.
Warmth spread in his chest.Do you?
Yes! Lucky for you, we’re both alive, and my ginger-mutant spell kind of works on brilligs, or I’d bereallypissed.
You killed them?
Not exactly. I used the ginger-mutant spell to shrink them down to action-figure size.
His mouth curved, pride filling him. His mate. Just his.
They’re now a super-cute invasive species that ran off into the woods. It’s probably going to screw-up the whole Club Kingdom ecosystem. Using Good magic has still got some kinks that I need to work out.
Work them out back in the Heart Palace. I will handle things here.
It’s like we have the same conversation, but you never actually hear it. We gotogether. It’s part of that True-Love-sharing thing you’re so fond of.
We’re sharing bank accounts, not death sentences. I know I agreed to this idea of facing things side-by-side, but it’s proving very hard on me. I want to renegotiate, so you’re never put at risk.
Can’t hear you. La-la-la-la!
Stop singing over me!
You’re lucky it’s not a Pecos Bill song. I know all of them.
He looked up at the ceiling, frustrated and a little frightened.Esmeralda, I promise you a thousand percent, I will find Marrok.(Just as soon as he escaped the dungeon.) You’ll be detected if you enter the Club Castle. I’m sure the Queen has traps set.
Don’t worry so much. I’m gonna come to the palace and save the day. It’ll be fun! I’m amazing at sneaking into places. I’ve never once paid for a movie ticket, concert admission, or amusement park ride.
To get the sealing wax spell, the Queen of Clubs will rip right through you.
Hanging up, now. …Oh wait! I need to gloat first. Itoldyou I used to hear you at the orphanage, didn’t I? You talked in my head, night after night. This proves it!
What did I say to you, back then? You avoided telling me that part, so I imagine it was interesting.
Don’t change the subject. When I find you, you can apologize for ever doubting me.
I never doubted that you sensed me. I simply failed to understand exactly how impossible your magic can get. Andyou’rethe one changing the subject. DO NOT COME HERE.
By the way, I’ve decided to say ‘yes’ the next time you ask me to marry you, so try not to do anything stupid. I’m already marrying a bossy control freak. I’d just as soon not marry a dead one.
There was the sensation of her kissing his cheek and then she was gone.
Ez?Ez!
Nothing.
Trevelyan didn’t have enough magic to keep the connection going on his own. He could still feel it, but it was silent. Shit! He banged a fist against the iron bars of the cell.The woman would drive him insane one of these days and it wasn’t like he’d been so incredibly stablebeforeshe’d arrived.
He’d been wrong earlier. Marrok’s desperate need for Scarlett was fully rational. In fact, it was calm and fucking sensible, compared to Trevelyan’s violent obsession with Esmeralda. Having their mate soothed the dragon and enabled Trevelyan to function at an even keel. …But losing her would detonate him like a bomb and wipe out the goddamn galaxy.
Did she not understand that? Why did she insist on risking herself? Hesaidhe’d save the wolf. Did she not trust Trevelyan to keep his word?
The dragon stirred at his core. Suppressed, but awake. Trevelyan and the dragon were the same. That two percent of Goodness threaded through them both. The dragon wasn’t brooding about their mate’s stubbornness, though. It was annoyed at Trevelyan. “Do you not trustEsmeralda?” it seemed to ask. She said she could get into the Club Castle undetected. Did he believe she could do that?
Was he willing to risk his life --hismate’slife-- on blind faith?
Trevelyan drew in a deep breath. Yes. Because, his faithwasn’tblind.
