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I knew she’d been in our heads twice, peeking through our bond at the fucked-up scenarios where we pampered her fatal enemy and showed our devotion and affection to the usurper. We forced the heat into our eyes while we served Tianna, though repulsion pulsed in our every fiber. Fortunately, Tianna wasn’t a dragon, so she couldn’t tell whether the heat was from rage or from lust.
In her great distress, Daisy couldn’t tell the difference, either.
She’d been so convinced that we’d consorted with her worst enemy and would deliver a final blow to her. She’d believed our fake betrayal.
Only Elvey knew the truth. That fucking demigod, who got to hold and fuck our mate day and night, was a good actor. Maybe too good for his own good. And through the mating bond that linked us all, he taught us how to keep Daisy out. He also opened to us completely and lent us his magic to deal with Tianna. The most useful one was glamour, and it was state of the art. Tianna had never suspected us because she believed that dragons had no glamour magic. It worked to our advantage that she didn’t take the three us too seriously other than that we were pretty faces and her playthings.
Our mate name calling us as such also helped our cause, though it humiliated and hurt us a great deal.
With Elvey’s superior glamour, we planted the illusion in Tianna’s mind to make her think we were enamored with her. She believed that we were fondling her while it was only the glamour at work.
We hated to admit it, but we knew we wouldn’t be able to pull it off without Elvey’s aid, given the aversion we felt toward the fake dark queen. And we weren’t natural actors like Elvey. We dragons were a straightforward species. We didn’t like faking. We hated games.
But we now played it like some fucking professionals to protect our mate.
We let her see a little of the game but not too much, so she could act out on her hate toward us and make it more plausible. When it got too much, we shut down the bond, with Elvey’s assistance on the other side.
I wondered if that bastard enjoyed this, enjoyed that our mate hated us but relied solely on him and gave him all her love and attention.
What would become of us when this was over?
We needed to end this before we went bat-shit crazy.
Our mate and us had once vowed to each other that there was nothing we couldn’t get past, but I doubted she would get past this. Even in the end, after she knew the truth, our relationship had been damaged beyond salvation.
How could we win her back when her love for us had withered, and there wasn’t even a piece of memory left to pick it up?
Especially now that she had Elvey, who could fulfill her every need?
My brothers shared the same thought as I when we’d learned about her marriage to him. They’d held the bonding ceremony consecrated in a blood ritual.
They had matching bonding runes etched on their forearms.
They would be husband and wife forever.
What about us? What would be left for us? Left of us?
A thousand daggers piercing through our souls would be more welcome than knowing our mate had chosen another over us.
She’d given up on us. She’d abandoned us.
We’d been replaced, just as she’d announced it loud and clear in front of everyone in court.
We have work to do, brothers, Iokul said in our heads, dragging me from wallowing in my misery. His expression was as grim and stormy as mine.
Blaze only stared into an empty space.Time is running out, he murmured.
It was completely bleak for us.
Without her, without touching her, without her in our arms, we were drowning in desolation.
The world was devoid of hope and color and warmth. Maybe it wasn’t worth saving anymore?
Let’s do this, I agreed.
This would be our final act.
We would not give up fighting for her.
