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My mates narrowed their eyes, not understanding everyone’s reactions. They thought that everyone was surprised at the resemblance between the dark queen and me. They didn’t know Tianna was wearing my mother’s face to taunt me until a whisper rose in the court. “The crown princess Zuzana.”
“Come to me, my beloved child,” my mother’s voice beckoned.
For a second, she was my mother, and I almost believed her. I ached to go to her, to sit down at her feet, and lean my head on her knee.
Elvey’s warning sliced through my head, piercing the hovering dark fog.“Bonding magic is your royal Fae heritage. Tianna has it as well. She mixes it with dark magic and uses it to control minds. When you face her eventually, she’ll try to bind you. You can never allow her to slip into your mind and control you.”
My shield went up and extended to my mates, my White Light twirling around it. To my relief, it’d come to my aid without my summoning. For the first time, it was like my second skin. The fog dissipated from my mind.
“Stop it, Tianna,” I said. “Your tricks don’t work on me. The game is over. You’re not worthy to wear my mother’s face. You don’t deserve to lick the dirt from the bottom of her shoes.”
“The bitch is pretending to be your mother?” Blaze growled, and the court hissed at us.
The red-armored guards stepped toward us, and Rai raised his sword, his lightning passing along the blade. At the same time, Iokul and Blaze shifted to dragons, roaring.
The guards stepped back, uncertain now, and waited for their queen’s order. The noble Fae pulled back and scattered further to give the dragons a wide berth.
One wrong move from the enemies, and we’d counterattack and burn the Red Palace down.
I fixed my stare on my true enemy, ready to push my White Light toward her and reduce her to ashes.
Tianna laughed. “Leave them be for now. The fun has just started. We don’t want it to be over so soon, do we?”
Her guards bowed to her and withdrew.
Blaze and Iokul didn’t shift back but hovered in the air.
Tianna’s face dissolved to her true form.
Her eyes shone darkly on her beautiful, creamy face. Tiny black crystals dusted her long golden lashes. Her sharp teeth flashed as she parted her bloodred lips. Her long nails, lethal as blades, tapped the armrests of her throne.
Her beauty was stunning yet so cruel and malicious and arrogant. There wasn’t the slightest humanity in her.
Immeasurable power and evil boiled under her skin.
The court gazed at her merciless beauty, completely enthralled.
Then I heard Rai suck in a breath involuntarily. Blaze and Iokul also focused their dragon eyes on her, stricken by her glamoured splendor.
They had assumed she was a crone, evil and ugly, since all they’d heard about was her horrific deeds. They hadn’t expected her to be so exquisite that no words could describe her loveliness. Her beauty beyond this world threw them off balance.
The dark queen saw it and knew it. A whimsical smile and lewd desire flared up in her cat-like green eyes.
I saw malice and rot in her true form, but the others saw only power and beauty.
My mates’ reactions to my enemy hurt me like a hot iron running through my heart.
They were under her spell. I was the only one who could see through her glamour. I’d never felt so utterly alone.
I grabbed Rai’s hand, and he squeezed mine, yet his attention stayed on the dark queen as she tilted her head and beamed at him. I doubted I could ever form up that kind of sickening sweet and sultry look.
Righteous fire burned in my eyes as I pictured mauling her face. I allowed no one to touch my men.
Only an ounce of sheer will kept me where I stood.
Rai’s nostrils flared at the queen’s scent
My heart pounded so painfully I was certain it would shatter into several pieces any second. Had Tianna evoked lust in my mates? I would tear her throat out for enthralling them.
