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She stiffens a little. There is still the case of Igor’s old girlfriend or fiancé, I’m not even sure. This would have been her horn.
“I think Imp needs to tell you those details.” She turns from me to the stove.
I decide to bite my lip because I don’t want to upset the only friend I have.
With Igor still getting his way back into his family, I know he is going to be busy for a while and I need to exercise some restraint and patience.
He did say we need to navigate carefully. And I know he will give me the answers.
Chapter seven
Bygones
Igor
Iinhalealongbreath before I exhale. There is someone in this room and it isn’t Aria, but I still recognize that scent, nonetheless.
“Azula.” I call before I open my eyes and I find her standing a few feet from me. I take her in briefly. She still has her leg. Good for her.
“Imp.” She says with that attitude I used to think was attractive.
“What are you doing here?”
“I was asked to dress your wounds.” She says.
“I have a mate.”
She laughs. And it just reminds me of everything that happened between us and how she betrayed me. Does she think I am still in love with her or that I have forgotten what she did?
“That feeblehuman?”
I try to move my body, but it complains, and I feel why when I see the many needles sticking out of my body.
“You laugh like you have forgotten you owe me your head.” I say.
“Just like you to hold a grudge. The humans haven’t softened you; I see.” She says.
“Your betrayal hasn’t been forgotten.” I look at her, and I notice she has a bracelet around her wrist.She is mated.
“Who is the unfortunate orc?”
She shakes her head at my mocking. “A hundred years and you are still the rude, spiteful orc you always were. I wish you didn’t come back here.”
She turns to leave, but she halts when I say. “ButI amback, and you better stay out of mine and my mate’s way, Azula. If I even see or hear you looked her way in a way she didn’t like, I will fulfill the promise I gave you sooner than you expect.”
The door opens and my mother frowns when she rushes out. My mother turns with her to watch her leave before turning back to me, shaking her head in disapproval.
“What did you say to her?” My mother comes to stand next to me.
“That I will hand her everything I promised before I left if she gives my mate or me trouble.”
Her face hardens. “When we sent you to their realm, we didn’t tell you to multiply.”
I look at her, really look at her. This is not the woman I met yesterday, or this morning when she stood next to my uncle.
“And I never thought when I left my tribe in your hands you’d mate with my father’s brother.”
“It’s no longer your tribe, Igor.”
