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“Huh?” Cinitta asks.
“Oh, you know, just another person in power trying to take something I love.”
“He also has the alpha and your sister.”
“Fucking hell,” I swear, shaking my head.
“Yes, fucking hell.” She smiles. “He plans to send you a warning tomorrow at first light. He is thinking possibly your sister’s arm.”
“Why are you here helping her?” Max asks as he steps onto the bank and reaches for the towel in Cinitta’s hand, pulling it from her grasp before wrapping it around my naked body.
“I believe she will be the better option to serve,” Cinitta answers him, then looks back to me. “He can’t see you anymore. But when you left the wolves, he could see your sister holding the baby and listened. He knows what she is.”
“She’s a baby,” I reply, to which she shakes her head.
“Yes, that may be true, but she is also the daughter of an alpha and a strong witch, and now has the life force inside of her from one of the most powerful people to grace this earth.”
“She’s right. This can’t wait any longer,” Max adds, turning to look at Cinitta. “How far is the castle?”
“A few miles that way.” She points and looks at me. “You know the way.”
I do.
But I had hoped never to walk to that castle again in my life.
Let alone lay my eyes on Viper.
The last time I saw him, he sent me through a damn portal.
Asshole.
ChapterSeventeen
Cinitta leaves us, and we go back to camp, where Max changes clothes, and I watch in fascination as he dresses in all black. His shirt, which has ties on it, slips on easily, as do his leather pants. He pushes his hair back before his eyes lock on mine.
“I’ll have you after you are on that throne,” he says.
“I don’t want the throne,” I tell him. “I never have.”
He steps forward, brushes my hair back, and starts to dress me. He pulls a shirt similar to his out and slips it over my head, then turns me around so he can do the strings up at the back.
“It’s the greatest leaders who never want the power. Those are the leaders who succeed.” He kisses my neck before securing the last tie. “Plus, you are mated to a king, which automatically makes you a queen.”
“Maybe I can appoint you, and you can do it all.” I hear him laugh behind me.
“Yes, sure, whatever it is you want.”
I smile before he turns me around. Then my thoughts go to my sister, John, and the baby. How did Viper even manage to get them? John isn’t an easy man to capture. I look down as Max drops to the ground and reaches for pants I didn’t see before. He slides them up my legs, dressing me as if I am a small child.
“I’m dressing you because you are lost in your head,” he answers, as if reading my thoughts. “Your sister will be fine. Call your father if you must.” He stands and kisses my head. “He may be a lot of things…the devil himself… but I can see the protectiveness he has for you.”
“I won’t be calling him. We can’t trust him. He is a demon, after all.”
“He is the king of demons.” Max puts both hands on my face, leans in, and kisses my lips. “And you are their princess.” He smiles. “As you are my queen.” I nod at his words before he lifts a knife I didn’t see and pushes it into the back of his trousers. Then holds out a smaller one for me. I take it and slide it into my leather pants and look up at him.
“What if…” A tear leaves my eye.
He wipes it away as if it doesn’t belong there.
