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A smile broke across Rosalinda’s lips. “On it,” she said, and went to hug Elvey.
I didn’t like her holding him so tightly. Just before I stalked to them to pull her away, despite a sparkle of tears in her eyes, Elvey gently extricated himself, as if knowing how insanely possessive I’d become.
He flashed me a sly smile, but in an instant, it was gone. Rage and fierceness hardened his handsome face. “You’re mad if you think I’ll go with your final plan, Daisy. The bitch won’t win. You won’t be reduced to a beast. I won’t abandon you for anyone or the whole world. The universe can burn and rot for all I care. And I promise you, we’ll get them back.”
Elvey had insisted that my former mates were still redeemable and still had feelings for me. I had no hope or faith left in them, but he held it for me, just like he’d always had.
I swallowed and laid my hand on his arm.
“Even so, I still want to marry you properly,” I said. “Will you deny your queen?”
“How can I deny you anything?”
But the silver-tongued demigod would, when he saw it was the right thing to do or suited his needs.
“I’ll go hunt down the priestess now,” Rosalinda said.
“In secret,” I said.
“Of course, Your Majesty,” she said. “Secrecy is what His Majesty Elvey and I are best at.”
Laughter glinted in her eyes as she rushed off.
Rosalinda and Zembyr were more than competent. In the past two days, they’d incorporated those of Tianna’s former court, who had chosen me, into their rank seamlessly. They’d also managed to communicate to our army outside Sihde.
But I had another problem to concern myself with. When the final war broke out, where would the Oslanian army stand, if their princes turned against me? Maybe we should dismiss them right now.
As my dark gaze found Elvey, he only shook his head. “Not yet.”
We had positioned the Oslanian army at the rear. If they turned, Tianna’s dark Fae army and the Oslanian dragon army would sandwich us and slaughter us.
“We’ll have a use for them,” Elvey insisted. “We’ll turn the tide. Trust me.”
I trusted Elvey, but I no longer trusted my former mates.
I turned to Zembyr. “Summon Adrian and Jarrod to the Forbidden Forest in secret. Don’t let any of the princes’ men know about it.”
Zembyr blinked. “But the dragons can’t cross the veil to Sihde.”
“The ones permitted by Queen Daisy can cross now,” Elvey said with a brilliant white smile. “The Challenge she accepted granted her the rights.”
Zembyr’s eyes lightened. “So, our main army can come to Sihde and fight?”
“Yes, Zembyr,” I said, a smile also dancing in my eyes. “But I’m not summoning the army now. That’ll be one of our secret weapons. Anyway, I’ll need Adrian and Jarrod, from the Dragon Realm side, to bear witness to the ceremony of my marriage to Elvey.”
Zembyr’s face darkened as he realized that I was making arrangements for the future in case I didn’t make it.
Elvey squeezed my shoulder. “I want to marry you more than anything, my heart, but it won’t come to that. With my blood, I won’t allow it.”
I swallowed. Elvey didn’t care to be the king. But I needed him to take care of our people instead of me. First, I needed to have the rite done, so no realms could deny his rule in my absence.
This was the first time I went behind my former consorts’ back and treated them as my enemies. I’d never expected for us to be divided like this, and I hated it more than anything that it had come to this, but reality had reared its ugly head, and all I could do was to prevent another nightmare and protect Elvey and my people’s interests.
In the end, if I lost, I wouldn’t even need to do the final deed and cleave my former mates out of my heart. My Fury beasts wouldn’t remember them. Nor would they remember Elvey.
Zembyr nodded gravely and exited the room.
I shoved down the desolation swirling inside me and kissed Elvey.
