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“I want you to know exactly how you fell into this moment before I kill you tonight. It makes it all so much more exciting.” His eyes looked crazy, and I swore I could’ve seen a spark of electricity flash through them.
“As I was saying,” he continued, smiling lazily, “I would give myself all the credit for finding you, but I really don’t deserve it. Amica was a big help, after all.”
No.
“After making Amica believe I was in love with her, she easily trusted me, and it didn’t take much for her to tell me that when you and Bennett slipped away from the kingdom for a day, it was because you were sent on a mission by the king. That you were the King’s Favorite. I didn’t trust her at first, but the more she explained, the less convincing it took on her end for me to believe it. She asked me to promise not to tell, since no one was supposed to know, and I had to hide my smile from her as she just told the worst person your biggest secret.
“Once I knew who you were, I had to be strategic in how I would end you. It would’ve been impossible to just slip in there and kill you; there were too many guards roaming the halls, and it would be stupid to simply walk in on an assassin.”
I gasped as realization hit. “It was you who led the Red Bones into the castle the night of the masquerade, you who poisoned me. It was you who killed Stella.” I clenched my jaw, white-hot fire in my veins.
The Golden blood was swirling inside me, begging for an escape.
He simply smiled. “She’s listening, good job.”
“Clearly your little plan to poison me failed.”
His smile turned into a snarl. “I can see that. I quickly learned that in order to get my hands on you, I needed something that would bring you to me, something you loved. And that was when little miss Amica told me about your feelings for our prince.”
“Let him go,” I said. “Fight me one-on-one, it’s me you wanted. He has no part in this.”
He shrugged, looking like he was possibly considering it. “That is true, but I don’t particularly like him, either.”
Bennett began to stir in Mendex’s grip as he regained consciousness. He blinked the heaviness out of his eyes and they widened in shock as they focused on me.
Rhia. Run.
I saw the pain in his eyes and cursed myself for not listening to him earlier, for not staying in my room where I could have prevented this.
“How about I make a deal with you. If you win our little match, then Bennett lives. If you lose, then he dies, and so do you. Oh, and for some extra fun, why don’t we throw Amica into the mix as well.”
Bennett looked at me with pleading eyes. Rhia, you can’t win, he—
“Deal.”
Mendex tossed Bennett aside on the floor, and his body was immediately surrounded by the remaining Red Bones in the room.
“How about we make this fight a little more even?” Mendex said, stepping closer to me in the center of the warehouse.
“That’s fine with me, I don’t need my craft to kill you.”
Rhia, please I need you to run now—
I snapped my head to Bennett. I can do this. I can save you.
“Actually,” Mendex smirked, “I was thinking I could make it even by using a little craft of my own.”
His gray eyes began to swirl, and they looked like. . .clouds. They turned white, right around the same time that electricity cracked around his fingertips.
Holy stars.
“What the hell is that?” I asked, shocked. I’d never seen anything like it in my life.
“Surprise, little Rhia, your Golden blood isn’t the only craft in town.”
He lifted his hands and formed a ball of electric current that sparked like little bolts of lightning, lighting up the entire warehouse with the brightness of it.
Fear coursed through me, but my adrenaline didn’t allow it to become overwhelming. I had no idea how to counter this type of magic, but I would figure it out. I had to; my friends’ lives depended on it. I needed time to come up with a plan, to figure out how I could get the upper hand in this fight.
