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“Are you suggesting that you can’t do it?” I asked coldly, ambling back toward my desk. “Because I was under the impression that you were the best enchantress in the kingdom. Maybe it’s time to look for others if you’re not up to the task.”
She balked but scowled simultaneously.
“I’m suggesting that you’re a glutton for punishment,” she fired back. “How much more does this fae have to do to you before you understand that she’s trouble? Since she’s been here, there’s already been two attacks on the castle!”
“More the reason for you to want to help,” I insisted, flopping down on my leather chair. “She’s in trouble and needs our help.”
“Or she’s playing you like a fiddle!”
“She’s not.”
“How can you be so damn sure, Zen? Yesterday, you were ready to murder her yourself!”
“No, I wasn’t,” I denied. “I was angry, but I never wanted to hurt her.”
Endora scoffed. “I don’t understand what changed. Just because she got you shifting again? If it wasn’t for her, you wouldn’t have lost your powers in the first place!”
I paused, unsure if I should tell her.
“Zen! You need to give me something!” Endora insisted.
“She’s my mate,” I answered honestly. “And she’s staying. So you can either work with her, or I’ll find someone who will.”
Endora blinked her onyx eyes at me rapidly.
“What?”
“She’s yourmate?” She sputtered as if the word hurt her mouth to say.
“Endora…”
“Zen, are yousure?”
I rose, anger surging inside me. “Sometimes, I really think you forget yourself, Endora.”
She held up her hands. “I’m just surprised. I would have picked a better mate for you. You know, one that wasn’t trying to kill you.”
“She wasn’t trying to kill me… she was under Agnan’s influence, and I’m asking for your help in getting her out from under that. Do you think you can manage it, or am I going to stand here all day arguing with you about it?”
Gritting her teeth, Endora nodded curtly. “As you wish, Alpha.”
I smothered a groan of annoyance. “I want her treated with respect, Endora. And if I catch wind of you or anyone else in the castle conspiring against her, I’m going to take it as a personal slight.”
“Understood.”
She turned to disappear, but I stopped her.
“Cyndella,” I said before she could vanish.
The enchantress hesitated. “What about her?”
“I don’t want her to know about this. Have you told her?”
Endora snorted. “Of course not. She’s too delicate. I don’t make it a point to aggravate the princess unnecessarily.”
She eyed me pointedly, as if to say that was my job.
“Good. Let’s keep it that way for now. I don’t need her confronting Mirielle.”
