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Live, I had chanted over and over. It had turned the undead dragon alive again. Yet I’d been focused on Cole. He’d still been in terrible shape once I’d gotten to the castle. Had my magic really saved him, even then?
“You’re a hero to these people, girl. Hector said that the undead dragon hadn’t been seen for thousands and thousands of years, since before Cole was even the king. It showing up is a seriously bad sign. They’re trying to figure out what might’ve caused it. It was supposed to be sealed deep, deep in Tartarus, but somehow it was able to break through.” She hesitated. “In fact, I had a thought.”
Ice went down my spine.It can’t be. “It has to be a coincidence.”
Daphne gave me a skeptical look but dropped the subject. She tasted the air and stared at me.
I grinned.
“You didn’t.”
“I did.”
Daphne shrieked in delight. “Damn, girl, you act fast! How did you even have time for that between the ball and fighting a dragon?”
“Let’s just say there wasn’t a lot of sleeping last night,” I said coyly.
“Details, bitch. I want details. If I still have my V-card, the least you can do is give me the play-by-play.”
“Really? I thought you and Hector…”
Daphne glanced away. “It’s weird for me, being the only living person in the land of death.” Sadness tinged her words, but she shook it off. “Don’t change the topic. I want to knoweverything. How was it? Was it amazing?”
I bobbed my head up and down like a dropped bobblehead. “It was better. He just… ugh. Words won’t even describe it.”
“Well, you better try,” Daphne informed me snippily.
I did, leaving out the most intimate details. It felt good to have simple girl talk with my best friend, rather than the severe topics that normally followed us around. She gasped when I told her how we started in the shower and high-fived me when I told her about the multiple orgasm thing. It was almost enough to make me drown out the growing sense things were about to get a lot worse.
Daphne filled in the other blanks. The dragon had flown off after dropping Cole and me on the castle roof, and no one had spotted it since. The settlements had been moved into the castle in the meantime, though. They had followed my evacuation plan and not a moment too soon. It explained why the hallways were even busier than usual.
Am I to be your queen?
I’d asked Cole that before everything had gone to shit. He hadn’treallyanswered. Maybe he didn’t want me to be his queen again, no matter how compatible we were in the bedroom. Last time, things had gone so badly that people still held a grudge. Hopefully, the whole “fighting off the undead dragon” would do some good for my PR, but that might not change Cole’s mind.
My stomach growled and I let Daphne know I was going to look for food. She offered to join, but I needed some time to myself to process.
Call it instinct, but as I passed an uncharacteristically empty hallway, my hackles rose.
When I tasted the faintest hint of cloves on my tongue, Iknew.
“Hello, lo—”
I slammed Phaidros into the wall.
Chapter XXXIV
MyhandwrappedaroundPhaidros’s neck and I squeezed, pressing him into the granite. He was bigger than me, but he hadn’t been expecting me to detect him so easily. I bared my teeth at the night-skinned demon. His surprise and fear tasted like ambrosia.
I was afraid. And fear no longer cowed me—it just made me angry. Because if I was right, Phaidros was even more dangerous than I’d suspected.
“You have some explaining to do.” I barely recognized the feral sound as my own voice.
Ssk!
Phaidros drew his blade, pressing it against my chin.
My hands sparked in response while I grabbed his wrist. He flinched but held the blade steady.
