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“I want you to meet someone, my queen,” Elvey said, leaning against the door to our chamber and watching as Spring, my new lady-in-waiting, braided my hair.
The court had insisted on me having the standard queen treatment—ladies-in-waiting, royal guards, and servants.
Some of Tianna’s former servants also threw their lot in with me, gambling on a better fate and gambling with their lives. While they swore fealty to me, they were under my protection. At least before the Challenge was over, Tianna couldn’t touch them.
Rosalinda had warned me that there might be spies amid the converted court and the servants. She kept a watchful eye on everyone. Only those who were approved by her could enter my chamber. In the end, she approved only Spring, the granddaughter to my mother’s former lady-in-waiting.
“Who is the someone, Elvey?” I asked.
Spring pinned my braids on top of my crown. She knew all sorts of styles in season. I nodded at her in thanks and dismissed her. She bowed to me, then to a grinning Elvey, and exited.
“You’ll see,” he said.
“An old friend?” I asked, arching an eyebrow. “Or a fiend?”
He didn’t answer
My demigod mate liked to surprise me. Even though he’d warded our suite, he was still cautious, not wanting anyone to catch a sliver of our secrets.
He strode toward me with his casual, graceful gait.
His every move radiated primal power. His muscles spoke the sexiest language he was well-versed in. My heart fluttered, and my breath became shallow with excitement. I could never get enough of him.
An amused laughter blended with bright lust in his star-blue eyes. He must have seen the heated pink on my face and knew how much I wanted him.
“Later,” he said roughly. “We’ll hump like rabbits when we come back.”
“What’s the dress code?” I asked.
I was clad in my usual armor with a cape. I was forever prepared for a battle, but I wasn’t sure if this outfit was suitable since I had no idea whom he was going to take me to see.
He wore a classic gray shirt and trousers, hotness in his every hard line, which meant there probably wouldn’t be a battle involved. However, if anyone thought Elvey wasn’t lethal without armor, they were fools. My mate didn’t need to carry a weapon to be dangerous. On several occasions, I watched a blade appear in his hand out of the mist.
“Maybe I should change to a gown?” I asked.
“No, this is perfect,” he said. “I want him to see you for who you are—the warrior queen.”
At least I knew I’d only be meeting one person, and it was a male.
“Ready?” he asked, his strong arm around my waist.
His touch was forever addictive. I could never get enough—
When the blackness of the night, stars, and vertigo that came with teleporting left me, I found that I stood with Elvey on a lovely beach street paved by rainbows of granite, his arm still clasped around me possessively. His lavender hair waved in the ocean breeze.
On either side of the street, beautiful shops and cafés merged seamlessly with a dream-like forest. At the end of the street, the waves of an ocean as blue as a vast gem lapped the golden shore.
“Where are we?” I asked in amazement, looking around and inhaling the pure, fresh air.
Sihde should be like this place.
“It’s The Flowing Isle,” a bright, rich male voice spoke from behind me.
The light Fae realm?
I wheeled toward the voice. A stunningly handsome male grinned at me, his shining silver hair flowing down to his broad shoulders.
