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And stared right into mine with them.
For some reason, I couldn’t look away.
The room was silent and his voice was low but calm when he spoke again. “Tell me who hurt you before I take this castle down with my fury.”
I was supposed to be furious with this man.
I was supposed to want him dead.
Stars, I was supposed to be making him fall in love with me so I could break his damned heart!
I needed to distance myself from him.
To… separate myself.
To put a wall between us, in some way.
“Your people did,” I drawled, forcing myself to lay on the hatred I had felt for him up until the day before.
His eyes narrowed. “Explain.”
Well, receiving commands from the bastard would definitely help me with putting a wall between us.
“Why do you think I showed up here to kill you? I spent two decades being tortured and raped by your people, as if having my family murdered by the same bastards wasn’t enough,” I spat.
His body was as tense as a fucking wall. “What the fuck are you talking about?”
I ripped my hand from his grip and stepped back. He didn’t release me—but did let me step away. “If you’ll excuse me, my newest prison cell awaits,” I spun and ducked under his arm, giving him a curtsy before I strode out of Lavee’s room, feeling so much lighter without my hair swaying around me as I moved.
Regardless of how the mate bond or the man himself made me feel, he was the reason my family was dead and the reason I couldn’t close my eyes without reliving the endless number of nightmares I’d survived.
Chapter5
Espen
I staredafter the sexy little pixie who had just fucking curtsied at me for longer than I should’ve.
Much longer than I should’ve.
My hold on the moon was straining, badly, but the sun would set soon so I didn’t have to hold on for much longer.
Something told me sleep wouldn’t be in the cards that night.
“What was she talking about?” I spun toward my brother, my voice coming out a snarl.
The savagery couldn’t be helped, given what my fated mate had just told me.
“The women who took our magic to save our lives were taken while we were unconscious that day.” Namir didn’t beat around the bush, for the first time in his fucking life.
“They wanted to extract your magic from within us, but it became a part of us as soon as you handed it over.” Diora was glaring at me. What had I done to piss her off? “Akari was the oldest, and took as much of the torture as she could for Vena and I. And she reached the age of maturity much, much sooner than we did.”
My anger rose with each word I heard. “And these people were from my court?”
“I don’t know. She never said anything about that to me, but she’s tried to protect me for as long as I’ve been alive.” Diora was still glaring at me as she spoke.
Namir said coldly, “If the people who tortured them are in your inner circle, you can consider peace a forgotten theory, because my people and I will reign hell down on you—the moon be fucking damned.”
I snarled back, “If there are rapists in my inner circle, I’ll burn their eyes out myself before they’re boiled from within until their fucking souls are nonexistent.”
