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“My name is Mirielle,” I told him flatly. “And I know who I am.”
Agnan’s complexion waned slightly. “Are you high, Mousie? Have you been drinking your sorrows away all by yourself in that little box you’ve been living in? Maybe I should come back when you’ve slept it off.”
I shook my head, a smile forming on my mouth, but inside, my tongue was parched, throat dried.
Where was everyone? Did the guards not follow me? Was I on my own out here?
My phone had stopped ringing, a fact I only just noticed now, and I wondered if Zen had given up on me.
“I’ve never been more clear-headed than I am right now, Agnan. I know exactly who you are and what you did. How do you think the Order will feel about you double crossing them?” I asked conversationally. “How do you think all those little orphaned faeries with mommy and daddy issues are going to handle being lied to again?”
“I don’t know what you’re babbling about,” he spat. “You’ve lost your mind, Mousie.”
He took a step back, wariness clouding his face.
“Oh? Care to explain why you haven’t taken out Alpha King Zen when you’ve had the chance then? You’ve had multiple opportunities. Isn’t that the pact of the Order? To end the reign of royalty?”
He scoffed. “I was protectingyou. So ungrateful. Such a little brat.”
“Since when do you protect any of us?” I asked sadly, suddenly remembering all of my lost sisters, the disposable bodies that Agnan had used and abused over the years. “Or am I special because I’m the daughter of Princess Audrina?”
Agnan gasped aloud, the shock on his face clear and palpable. For half a second, he merely stared at me, and I could see the wheels of his mind racing wildly. He started to shake his head as if he was going to deny it, but I held up a hand.
“I know everything, Agnan. I know what the Order did to my family and who my mother is. I know she got away from the massacre and started a new life on her own.”
Again, he tried to shake his head, but I glowered at him.
“Really? You’re going to deny it? I just spelled the whole thing out for you!”
He paused as if to consider my words and then released a huge sigh. “How long have you known? Who told you? That bastard king?! Is that where you’ve been getting your information?”
A car’s headlights shone up the street, and Agnan backed away from me, but as he did, another set of headlights appeared on the other end of the street. Agnan spun around, but there was nowhere to run, the Royal Guards springing up on all sides.
“He’s lying, you know,” Agnan snickered, but there was no confidence in his words. “Can you really believe thatyouhave royal blood? You? Come on, Grendel. Look at you.”
I bit on my lower lip, the words still stinging in spite of myself.
“You’re pathetic, useless,” Agnan went on. “You can’t honestly believe that, can you?”
“I believe Zen more than I believe the past twelve years of what you’ve told me,” I answered him honestly.
“Then you’re an idiot,” Agnan snorted. “And you deserve whatever you get from the Order of Souls—just like Audrina got.”
He grinned cruelly, and I rushed toward him, fist raised. He leapt forward to attack me back, but before he could move, three guards pinned him to the ground as he howled.
“Get off me, you pricks!”
To my surprise, they released him, and I backed away. I looked toward Jaylen, who had once been my private guard.
“Why are you letting him go?” I demanded.
“The king wants to deal with him personally,” Jaylen explained flippantly as Agnan tried to run.
The guards blocked him from going anywhere, as if playing a game of monkey-in-the-middle with him.
“Our orders are to keep you safe and him from going anywhere.”
“You can’t keep me here!” Agnan howled, again trying to disappear, this time with the use of magic.
