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“Yeah?” Barbie lifted her chin in defiance. “Who’s going to drag me back to the funeral room that smells of stale chicken blood, moldy bread, pungent wolfbane, expired coffee, and dead flowers? The other sirs only needed to suffer for five minutes, but I had to sit through it all!”
Cami, Rock, and the other attendants all fought hard not to laugh.
“That bad?” Prince Rowan winced, and the other heirs all glared at Killian.
Prince Silas was still reeling from his sneezing fit. Served him right for being nasty.
“People go on dates to get to know each other,” Barbie said, eyes on fire. “Yet none of you asked what kind of food I like or what my favorite color is.”
Barbie had been lowkey when she first came to Shades Academy, but she’d had enough. Other bride candidates dared not take this tone with the heirs, but Barbie’s birthright gave her the right, even though she hadn’t realized it. No one could keep her at the bottom of the food chain. She was an apex predator, an almost-goddess, which could be one of the reasons that the heirs were all drawn to her without understanding why.
Power called to power.
They tolerated her while they wouldn’t do it for anyone else. The challenge from Barbie was so refreshing and entertaining that none of them seemed to be angry, but rather mesmerized by her outrage.
“These dates were poorly managed and one-sided,” Barbie continued. “The Guardian of the House was so discouraged at the lack of respect toward me that he had a meltdown before he quit!”
I blinked. That wasn’t why I’d quit, and I didn’t melt down. I might be a dead guy, but I wasn’t a pussy.
“Only Sir Cade brought me a gift—two jars of raw honey from China.” She flashed two bottles of nicely wrapped honey in her hands, and Killian shot an annoyed look at Cade. He was possessive toward Barbie, even though he couldn’t have her.
“The size is very small,” Prince Killian commented.
Barbie dipped her gaze to the bottles. For a second, she wasn’t sure, but then she lifted her golden head and nodded at the mage prince. “Yes, the size is small, but it’s the thought that matters. Sir Cade got them for me from China.”
“It was made in China and imported here,” Prince Louis shouted. “Everything is made in China!”
“What’s the difference? The label says China, so I got it from China symbolically for Barbie,” Prince Cade defended himself.
“And you secretly brought a gift for Barbie to upstage us,” Prince Silas accused, and sneezed again.
Prince Cade threw up his hands. “This is what I call paranoid. This competition isn’t healthy.”
“I gotta get the fuck out of here instead of listening to all this on an empty stomach and wobbly legs,” Barbie complained.
Empty stomach? Barbie was a pathological liar. She’d never had an empty stomach since she got into the House of Chaos. In fact, she was always eating, like her stomach was an endless pit. Did it have to do with her goddess brand?
“If you even care, you should know that I haven’t even fully recovered from the terrible trauma,” she kept whining. “The good guardian of our house’s suggestion of gifts like cash or diamonds has fallen on deaf ears. I’m tired and hungry, so I’m just going back to my room to finish that smut book.”
“What smut book?” all the princes asked.
“It’s about shooting cum into a cunt,” Prince Killian said with a smirk.
Barbie flushed, gave the chaos prince a baleful look, and shot out of the door, full of spirit and energy, which contradicted what she’d said about wobbly legs.
Heat seared in every prince’s eyes. The vampire prince stared at where Barbie had disappeared, lust and longing heavy in his pale blue eyes. He was probably picturing shooting his vamp cum into Barbie’s goddess cunt. Killian might have detected the same thing as me, since he growled at Prince Louis threateningly.
Prince Silas frowned. “Why do women want to read about cum when they can have it?”
He’d finally ceased coughing and sneezing. Well, even though I didn’t like him, I had to give credit to his strength, endurance, and power.
“Smut is always popular with ladies.” Prince Cade chuckled. “Men are visual animals, but chicks have different needs.”
“What about me?” Prince Rowan demanded, annoyance flitting across his handsome face. “I haven’t had my five minutes! I’m the only one who’s left out.”
“Well, if it’s any comfort,” Prince Louis said, “Barbie isn’t in good enough shape to go on another date. As I said, she was half-asleep when I walked in. Killian obviously hasn’t taken good care of his newest member. He shouldn’t have dragged her here and forced this speed dating on her.”
“At one point, she almost fell off the chair.” Prince Cade shook his head. “Until she smelled the honey I brought her.”
