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Send your prince away, Sy, Barbie said. We need to get ready.
We’d need to shift back, and then she’d have a quick bath in the icy lake to erase Rowan’s scent, though one of my deepest wishes was that one day I could wear his scent to sleep and wake up to the memory of him fucking me nice and hard.
“I shall go,” Rowan said before I could persuade him to do the same.
“Go now, my sugar,” I said.
“Will you be okay?” he asked.
I beamed at him, showing him my fangs. “I’m badass.”
“Will you wait for me here?” he asked.
“I’ll try, but I can’t promise you anything,” I said.
My heart ached for him while fear lodged in my throat for Barbie.
“Thank Barbie for the cabin in Underhill when you see her, will you?” I said sultrily. “Also, she mentioned that the diamond you brought her was for six messages, not ten.”
24
Barbie
Just as I crept up on the House of Chaos, dozens of students poured out of the violet building of steel and glass. I spotted Cami and Rock right away. Everyone parted to make a path for them.
“Team One-Hit Wonders, head toward Underhill!” Rock barked at the warriors who stayed behind to babysit me. Judging from the tightness on their faces, they must be mad at losing me. “Team Unhinged Copycats, search the courtyard?—”
“Barbie’s there!” Cami shrieked, pointing in my direction just as I was about to blend in with the other students.
I smiled at them sheepishly and waved a tentative hand.
In a second, the teams reached me.
“How did you even get out?” Rock demanded furiously.
“We shouldn’t have let that guardian distract us!” Archer complained.
Pucker had zipped to me to inform me of the trial while I was bathing in the icy lake to get rid of the scent of the fae prince on Sy. It always leaked to my skin too after they fucked.
Over my dreadful look at the culling, my ghost familiar had rubbed his phantom hands in excitement. “Finally, we’re going to get some action!”
“That’s not important now,” Cami said, grabbing my elbow. “Go change, and I won’t let you out of my sight even as you undress.”
All the students were heading toward Skyward in their uniforms. I was wearing my casual clothes—a long-sleeved shirt and a pair of yoga pants.
I protested, “But I’m shy!”
“Who cares?” Cami said, dragging me up the stairs. “Hurry up! We’re running out of time.”
“Then you should run, and I’ll catch up with you later.”
Cami jutted her jaw out. “Not a chance. I don’t trust you!”
“Well, I don’t blame you, but I don’t think the Brides Selection is for me, Lady Cami,” I said, slowing down before we reached the top of the stairs. “I think I should skip the trial.”
“You aren’t getting out of it!” Cami snapped. “They’re already after you. Staying in the Brides Selection is the only way for you to stay safe and stay in our house so my cousin can protect you. Don’t you know that he went to the Chaos Court that he hates for you? Now that he’s away, you take orders from me. You hear me?”
“Yeah, I’m not deaf,” I said. “And you’re unusually loud. But I just have a bad feeling about this trial.”
