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“We need to defeat him quickly, Lacey,” he said as he pressed the fob on his car.
I leaned against the door of the house and watched as Carter drove away. Raising my arm, I gave him a smile and a wave.
After a couple of minutes of thinking about Carter’s words, I opened the door and walked into the house.
“She said the man in her dreams has wings and the dragon prince definitely has wings,” Ryan said. “I know I was up there with her and staring directly at him.”
“Yeah, Ryan, we were underneath him. We saw the wings, but it doesn’t make him the dark king,” Kane replied.
I stood at the doorway and continued to listen to their thoughts.
“After what the vamp king did to her at the ceremony, we really can’t write him off,” Seb said.
“Or the Gray Trent,” Ryan said. “I suppose we might as well get all contenders in the ring.”
I pushed myself off the door and walked toward them. “It isn’t the king of the fae. At least I don’t think it is.”
“Why?” Seb asked.
Five heads glanced at me and I chewed on the side of my bottom lip because I said the words, but I wasn’t certain he wasn’t, but I was certain of something. “Because I don’t feel him.”
“What do you mean by that?” Ryan asked.
I plunged my head into my hands and sighed loudly. “I don’t know.”
“She means she feels the dark king. Am I right?” Blake asked, lifting one eyebrow, which was telling me he knew exactly what the truth was.
Kane cast me a look that said, be careful. Clay had told me I’d feel my mate bonds, but that included the dark king, but the dark king didn’t know and I could hardly say it out loud when I knew he listened in on me.
I turned away from him and lifted my shoulders, glancing around at the other three surprised faces. “I just know the dark fae isn’t the dark king. Something inside me tells me he isn’t,” I said, but sighed immediately. “But I don’t know if in the flesh he can hide himself somehow. Maybe I’m wrong.”
“We need to know everything, Lacey. You need to stop keeping things to yourself,” Ryan pushed.
“You already know my thoughts on it, Ryan,” I argued.
“I mean everything you think and know about the dark king, you can’t keep things to yourself. We have to imagine he could be anyone,” Ryan said. I stared at him for a moment and thought of Carter’s words. Did Ryan want me to admit my feelings for the dark king because he wanted to know… because he was him?
I sighed. “What I know is Gray is up to something because I now know for sure he manipulated everything the night of the Elysium Ball. He has magic that can manipulate people, and he did that to me,” I said, purposefully dropping the conversation about the connection I had with the dark king.
“That’s not fae magic,” Ryan said.
“According to Zena, it is,” I said. “She let that slip earlier today.” I glanced a look at Jack, and he looked through his lashes at me. “But if you’re right and it’s not a fae thing, does that mean they have help from another kingdom to do it?”
“Like ours,” Seb said. “Someone is helping Gray.”
“Possibly,” I said. “But back to the dragon prince. He could be the dark king. My dreams, his presence, and the words he left me with were the same used by the dark king once.”
“And those words are?” Kane asked.
“He said ‘What makes you think I want to kill you?’ like I told you, the dark king said the same words to me once. But more than that, the way he looked at me when he said it, I imagine the dark king would look at me in the same way.”
I strode to the cupboard and took out a glass and filled it with water. I plunged my elbows on the worktop and looked up to the sky.
“Probably a coincidence,” Seb said.
I rolled my eyes, but turned and smiled. “Yes, probably,” I said because Seb was convinced it was someone inside our own kingdom and now hearing of the king of the fae having a new magic which, if I was being honest with myself was highly likely to have come from one of our own.
“When did you realise you had a deeper connection with the dark king?” Jack asked.
