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A part of my brain perks up as he continues muttering about his mother.
“The way she’s always going on about me having a human mate, and if that wasn’t enough, having to put up with that little puppet Yiosha of hers regurgitating everything she says…”
“No, it wasn’t your mother!” I exclaim. “Valkus, I think I remember now!”
He spins around in excitement. “Who was it then?” he asks, grasping my shoulders.
“There was a moment I was flipped around, and my attacker tried to blindfold me, but I saw who it was for a split second.” I pause, closing my eyes and trying to picture the scene again.
Valkus’ breath comes to a halt, hanging on desperately for my revelation.
“It was the servant, Yiosha! She tried to poison me!”
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VALKUS
“You’re a fucking dead woman.” The words come out in a snapping snarl, and if she could, I am sure Yiosha would go pale with fear.
She swallows convulsively as I stare at her. I click my fingers, and the doors in the room slam shut.
Yiosha goes still, and her eyes widen. And I know that I have seen that expression before.
I have seen it on the faces of hunted animals.
She knows that I am about to hunt her. And kill her.
Part of me is almost relieved that this has happened.
Althia has unlocked something inside me. Something dark and ugly. It has always been there, but her presence in my life finally gave it a name.
And its name is rage.
Only I couldn’t really let it out. Not in polite society.
But now this, the attack by Yiosha, it gives me a reason to let it out. And I think Yiosha sees it because she scrambles away from me, as if to run away.
My magic escapes me then, and it is as angry as I am. And it moves on its own, not needing any urging from me.
It comes out dark red and violent, in tendrils that grab Yiosha by the waist and drag her back to me. My magic keeps her still, while I turn to Althia on the bed and ensure that she is okay.
Then I turn back to Yiosha.
“I’m going to kill you.” My voice is surprisingly calm and measured. “You do know that, right?”
Yiosha’s face changes. She seems to become almost angry.
“I’m going to fucking kill you!” The rage whips out of me, and Yiosha flinches, but her brow is still angrily furrowed and her mouth is still pressed into a hard line.
“You’re a disgrace,” she says finally. My hands are clenched into fists, and I know that blood has welled up on my palms where my nails have bitten into my fists.
“I was just trying to protect the family!” Yiosha cries. “You were going to destroy the family name, just like Taveth did!”
“You almost took my mate from me!” I scream at her, and then I pounce. I grab her by the neck, but she manages to fight me off.
“I was just trying to help the family!” Yiosha’s voice has changed. Now, instead of trying to argue with me, she is trying to get me to feel sorry for her.
It will not work. Nothing that she can attempt to do will make me feel any sympathy for her.
