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A low growl tore from his throat, and Cailis jumped.
“He purposefully hurt you. He was trying tokillyou. I saw enough to know that. When you stopped me from—” His jaw clenched so hard that his teeth made a grinding noise. “From ending him then and there, it allowed me enough time to realize you gave me a gift. Now, I shall be able to take my time with him.” A perverse light shone in his eyes.
Cailis made another sound, a gurgle between disbelief and horror.
I squeezed her hand. “You’re not helping to dispel the preconceived notion my sister has of you being a complete monster.”
“Pity. I apologize.” The prince bowed mockingly, and I realized he was still so caught up in his fantasies of what he wanted to do to Vorl that he probably didn’t even realize how visceral he looked at the moment. He was like a dark demon coming to collect one’s soul, and he was savoring every bit of it.
And to think I’dwantedthe prince only last night. This convoluted male of a fae.
But I’d seen other sides of him too, kinder sides. Softer sides. But looking at him now, I wondered if I’d been a fool. A fool indeed since my fluttering attraction to him still burned my insides.
A flash of Prince Norivun’s mouth on mine, his powerful body caught between my thighs, and my fingers threaded through his hair kissed my thoughts. I’d more than wanted him last night. I’d nearly begged him to take me.
Mother Below!I lurched from the bed and strode away from him. I had to. I didn’t trust myself around him.
“Why are you here?” I called over my shoulder. “Isn’t there some innocent family you should be murdering?”
Prince Norivun’s aura pounded into my back as he followed me, and I could only imagine what my sister was thinking as she sat mutely on the bed. With a start, I realized it was the first time I’d ever seen Cailis at a loss for words.
I rounded the turn near the wardrobe and entered the bathing chamber, but the prince followed, not even slowing when I tried to slam the door on his face.
His hand clamped around my wrist and whirled me to him.
My breath sucked in when my body slammed against his as my breasts flattened against his chest. His arm curled around my waist, and he dipped his head—his eyes like pools of stars, so bright and dazzling that they threatened to suck my soul into their powerful galaxy.
“Is that how you treat your crown prince?”
I struggled in his hold. “Let me go.”
His grip tightened as his gaze narrowed. “You responded to me last night. I felt and scented how much you wanted me. Why the sudden change now?”
“I did not want—” My head snapped back. “Wait. What?Scented?”
His lips curved, and my jaw dropped.
“You have a sensory affinity too? You can smell things other fae can’t?”
He shrugged. “It’s not my fault if I can detect how much you desire me.”
My pulse pounded like a wild beast as I frantically thought back to all of the times I’d been aroused by him, and to think he might have known it. No, hehadknown.Blessed Mother. Heat rose in my cheeks.
“What does that affinity allow you to detect?”
“In addition to an overall heightened sense of smell? I can also scent emotions.”
Fuck me.So the prince had his death affinity, his illusion affinity, an air elemental affinity, and a sensory affinity. But that still left two more that I didn’t know about.
“What are your other two affinities, my prince? I know you have six total, but I only know of four.”
His lips twitched.
I fumed and had the strongest urge to slap him. “You’re not going to tell me, are you?”
“It would be more fun to let you figure it out. But as I was saying, why the sudden change from last night? You wanted me then. Are you truly going to act like you don’t want me now? That you don’t wish to be my wife?”
I tried to shove him away, but he didn’t budge. “Why would you want me to be your wife? Why would you want a female who despises you to be married to you?”
