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“Like calls to like.”
He nodded absently. “It troubles me that she was in Anaria.” It was a brilliant hiding place. “If I invested this much time into a weapon, I would keep it near. Protect it.” Rune glanced toward her room again. “Perhaps fate smiled on me, and it takes time for the spell to bind. I found her before her keeper.” Or the Familiar sister is her guard. It mattered not. She was in his possession now. They would need to come through him to wield her against him.
“You’re treating her badly.”
Rune raised an eyebrow. “I am holding her as I would anyone who posed a danger to my court.”
Sadi folded her arms. “She’s unhappy.”
Rune exhaled before saying, “Willfully so.”
Sadi sat on his desk and closed his tome. “What if she’s yours?”
“She is not.”
“My father’s Sight is never wrong.”
Rune opened the heavy leather-bound book once more, giving Sadi a pointed stare. She only gazed at him, her midnight eyes pleading. Believing he proceeded in error. He placed his hand over hers, giving her a reassuring squeeze. “I am not Familiar. Shadowmen were not created with mates. Neither were Pure Bloods. Magic binds me to her. Her mortality to me.”
Sadi looked away, staring over his realm. Hell’s ever-twilight sky reflected in her gaze. “She thinks she’s related to me.”
“Did you tell her?”
Sadi shook her head. “You should hire a staff.”
Rune thinned his lips. “The Keep is empty. I do not require staff.”
“Your captive doesn’t drink blood. She will need meals. Maybe get her some clothes.”
Rune leaned back in his chair and exhaled.
“She’s in a torn bathrobe.”
“Her torn bathrobe was caused by her sprouting wings.” But perhaps Sadi had a point. She was a dark-blood and deserved to be treated as such.
“I’ll go to the Hall of Empty Eyes after she’s settled. Having a double doesn’t sit well with me.” Sadi stood and dragged her fingers through his hair, pulling the long white-blonde strands through her grasp.
Darkness, why was he surrounded by women that frayed his temper. Rune glanced up at her. She gave him a coy smile. “We need her cooperation to get past her shield so maybe play nice?”
Chapter fourteen
Fayesatatthewindow ledge until her leg went numb. She gingerly rose taking small steps as pins and needles climbed up her thigh. She moved to the table, glancing over the food that somehow stayed hot. Wasteful dark-bloods and their magic. This could have fed half her village. Faye poured a glass of water and drank deeply, gazing out of her cage.
She’d waited for the sun to set. For some sense of time to pass. The sky remained unmoved, caught forever in twilight. Faye set her glass down and ran her fingers through her hair. It had dried into an unruly mess after she slept on it wet.
She turned to peer down the long hall. The end of it opened into a larger room with polished black floors. Faye was tempted to close her door and lock it. She didn’t bother since the Shadow Prince could just poof into places out of thin air.
Faye shrugged out of her robe and set it over the foot of her bed. She glanced down at her leather bikini. He couldn’t have chosen to kidnap her on another day. No, she was trapped in Hell dressed in little more than underwear.
She pulled the blankets and got into bed, clutching a pillow to her side. A hot bath sounded wonderful, but the Shadow Prince might interrupt her. She could soak in her bathing suit and not be exposed. Faye kicked around the idea snuggling further into the bedding.
The sharp sound of metal clanging on metal startled her. Faye sat up, holding the blankets over her front, glancing over the room. She studied the space. Nothing was a miss
The faint rhythmic sound continued, and Faye pulled herself out of bed and dragged her robe back on. She followed the sound to the chandelier closet. Her hand closed over the handle as she slowly pulled it open.
Clothing swung from their hangers as though someone roughly set them. Shirts, pants, and jackets now filled the closet. Faye flipped through the clothing and pulled out something leather with long ribbons hanging from it. “Is this a fucking corset?” Faye said, stuffing it back in place. What’s this guy’s deal? He kidnapped her and bought her clothes to make up for it?
Faye exited and movement caught her eye. The arrogant jackass was walking toward her room. She turned her back to him, taking a seat in her window ledge, hoping he was going to his room and not planning to bother her further.
