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"The woman," I say, "Who is she? Tell me of her."
“I tire,” my father says. He isn’t lying either, he’sexhaustedhimself lifting Kyran. It’sOctavian who rushes to get under father’s arm and support him.
Father would never accept my touch. It’d be too dangerous.
Octavian tells me what my father lacks the strength to say:
"She’s the daughter of a mafia family from the human realms. Powerful, influential andveryrich. She’ll give us access to what we need to keep the family alive for another century. You don’t have to love her, Fabien. And she won't live long, as she's human. Your father and I wanted you to marry her, but it’s also possible she could give us a child. We don’t care what else you do with her. It’s time to grow up, cousin.Ifyou want to lead.”
My father speaks then, in a raspy, breathy voice.
"You can destroy her like you destroy everything of value that you touch, but you will marry her. And you’ll try to make a child. An heir.”
A human?I never thought my destiny would be a human woman, but couldn’t it be? Maybe I never found her because I never looked in the right place.
Or maybe it’s just someone these two knuckleheads dug up to get them guns and money. Which wedoneed.
I approach the throne, but I'm so furious at seeing Kyran laid out, I can't speak. As I throw Kyran over my shoulder and stalk from the throne room, my father's laughter echoes behind me.
“You will marry her, boy!”
