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“Reetah.”
“Reetah, it seems you’re smarter than I thought you’d be.”
I remained silent, biting my inner cheek to avoid making a stupid and fatal mistake.
“I hear you are the lady’s maid to your princess, correct?”
“Yes.”
“And yet you seem to have more of a backbone than the princess you’ve vowed to serve with your breath. So much loyalty for such a dreadfully dull and cowardly princess. Why is that?”
I kept my mouth shut.
“Very well, I’ll allow you that secret.” He walked back to his desk and sat, once again steepling his stupid fingers under his chin. “Are you sure you’re mortal?”
“Yes. I’m just a witch.”
He quirked an eyebrow, his interest piqued. “So you’re not mortal.”
“I’m not a magical witch. I’m just an earth witch. I make elixirs that help people heal.”
His stare on me was impassive. “How dull.”
What a dick!
“Well, you are beautiful. But alas, you’re mortal, and elixirs won’t be enough to heal my people when the war comes and we conquer the angels, find Aurora and shred her to pieces the way she deserves.”
I swallowed. Goddess, he was maniacal.
“But there is something I can use you for. After all, I’m not just gathering an army. I have current endeavors that require me to keep some people happy.”
Fuck. I knew where he was going with this, and the horror of this knowledge made every fiber in my body tremble.
He watched me with keen black eyes, and a devious grin spread on his face. “Yes. You do know where you are, don’t you, girl?”
“I’m in your house.”
“Yes, but this place is more than that. The Villa, as we like to refer to it, is a pleasure house of sorts. Reaver here is in charge of finding girls, usually magical, and bringing them here for… servitude.”
Holy shit. My hatred for Reaver renewed. I stepped to the side and away from him, forcing his hand to drop away from my body.
“Yes. The sexual kind of servitude. See, in this manner, we’ve managed to accrue an army of the most powerful mystics in the realms, some of them tasked with providing sexual services to mystic and mortals alike. For some reason that I’ll never understand, angels gave the reins of the realms to the feeble mortals, when they not only didn’t deserve it, but were utterly unequipped for the job.”
My heart raced so fast and yet its loud pounding in my ears wasn’t enough to drown out his words and the weight of my new reality. I wanted to vomit.
“Those pompous mortals are so full of themselves, they cannot see that while we wine and dine them and throw the most beautiful men and women to fuck them and fulfill their every pathetic desire, I’m gathering information and finding out their weaknesses.”
Fuck. Shit. Drat! I’d fallen into the underbelly of a sick and twisted world I never knew existed, and it was far darker than I could’ve ever imagined.
“I am preparing to take them all down, and now you’ll help me achieve my goal.”
“Please don’t do this. You said you only recruit mystics.” I never begged, but I’d do it now with no shame because what he wanted to do with me was way worse than death.
My pleading words only made him chuckle. “You’d be a great fun toy for one of them, or more, depending on how many pay for your services.”
I wanted to flee. I wanted to scream. I wanted to run. I was trapped. “And if I refuse?” His laughter reverberated off the walls. The ceiling was so high it echoed as if the room had been empty.
