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“Go back to your room.” The Shadow Prince stated calmly from his seat behind a large dark wooden desk.
Faye could only stare at him. He watched her suffering. He knew. “Why didn’t you tell me you didn’t kill her?”
“It matters not.”
The High Queen stepped closer to her, pinching her chin. Inspecting her as she turned her head one way then the other. “Her likeness to your pet Familiar is remarkable.” She turned her gaze to him. “Does she spread her legs for you?”
Faye flushed deeply as the tops of her ears heated.
The High Queen leaned toward her and parted her lips, taking in a breath. Faye held still, growing more uncomfortable with each passing moment. She’d never seen dark-bloods behave this way. Were these vampiric customs? Faye lowered her gaze, afraid of insulting the High Queen.
She straightened, glancing at the Shadow Prince. “I can’t taste her emotions. Are you camouflaging her?”
“I require her for a spell,” was all he said, returning to his documents.
The High Queen flicked her hand in Faye’s face, dismissing her. “High Queen. Please, I don’t want to be here.” Faye begged.
“You have no choice in the matter. Go back to your room. Sadi if you would escort her, it would be appreciated.”
Faye glanced behind her at the Familiar woman and turned to the High Queen, silently pleading to be saved. The High Queen turned toward her, and her face lit. She would take her back. Faye could go home to her sister.
“You’re in his realm dear. Feel free to call your court to war against the Shadow Prince.”
The peasant blanched and her arms went limp. Her pained, defeated look twisted something in Rune’s chest. It hurt him to see her distressed. The Ra’Voshnik circled his mind.Go to her, it growled, demanding he comfort and soothe her.
Rune drove it down, ignoring the ache. The sooner he was free of this spell, the better. It must be tied to the Ra’Voshnik, which would explain why it acted so strangely toward her.
The mortal left the room with her head down, and it took all of Rune’s self-control not to go after her.
“I’ve never seen you take a pet before.” Lyssa stood beside him, leaning closer to scent him. “I can smell her on you. You refused my offer but took an Anarian to your bed?”
The Ra’Voshnik purred from the recesses of his mind.Yes, bring her to our bed.
Rune schooled his expression and lifted his gaze to meet Lyssa’s. He didn’t need to taste her emotions to know the rotten taste of jealousy covered her. “You know no one has ever received an invitation to my bed.”My queen will be the only woman I offered that to.
Lyssa clicked her tongue at him. “I’ll leave you to train your pet.”
She phased out of his realm leaving him in his study. Rune exhaled, frustrated with his inability to control the Ra’Voshnik, and its incessant want for her. The mortal clouded his mind, impairing his judgment. Twisting something in him each time he glanced her way.
Rune dragged his hand through his hair before closing his eyes. He took a deep breath in and released it slowly, centering his mind. Assuring himself what he felt was no different than what every other male experienced. The driving desires were new, and he was untested in this regard. But Darkness, the learning curve for his minx was far steeper than any of the magic he dedicated his life to.
Not his.Rune thought bitterly, pinching the bridge of his nose. Even as every instinct within him screamed she was.
Chapter twelve
Thegray,colorlesswallsclosed in on her with each step. Faye was a fool to think the High Queen loved her people. She was a dark-blood like the rest of them. Faye straightened her back as they passed a closed door along the hall a few feet from hers. Taking a deep cleansing breath, Faye focused her mind. She didn’t need the high bitch. She would escape on her own.
From her doorway, Faye glimpsed the sky through the window beside her bed. She could see the sun was setting. Or was it dawn, how long had she slept? She strolled to the window hoping to find a landmark. Anything that would identify her surroundings and aid her plot to escape. Faye’s breath caught as she stood before the window.
The ground glimmered, stretching as far as she could see, blending into the horizon. Mountains and jagged spikes rose from the ground in chaotic bursts. The entire landscape was made up of the same beautiful shimmering crystal. The sun dipped just below the horizon. The stars beginning to emerge as the last of the colors gave way to the darkness sweeping over the sky.
“Where are we?” Faye asked absently. She could hear the High Queen’s voice laughing through her mind.You’re in his realm, dear.
Sadi came to stand beside her, fingering the white gauzy material draping either side of the window. “This is Hell.”
Faye’s hope of escape shattered before it began. Her stomach knotted, and Faye thought she would be sick. Her breaths came in short pants as she fixed her gaze on the window ledge. It’s just a realm, she told herself. A closed realm he had stolen her to.
His realm.
