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My gaze sharpened as her elegant hand landed on Elvey’s shoulder as if she owned him. I balled my fists under the table, controlling an urge to shove her off him.
Mine! He’s mine!A furious voice echoed in me, shocking me for a second.
Elvey wasn’t mine. I already had three mates. Why did I have such possessiveness toward him? Must I have every man? I scolded my greed.
And didn’t Elvey deserve someone to care for him?
Despite my stone-cold logic, my face turned icy.
Elvey watched me, but he didn’t seem to feel the need to brush off the woman’s possessive hand on his shoulder. The female Fae gave Iokul a glance and complimented, “Nice mask,” before fixing her scrutinizing gaze on me again. Then she winked at me and bent down to kiss Elvey on the cheek.
All I wanted was to pry her away from him and punch her in the face.
Elvey pushed her away gently and firmly. “I might be half-Fae, but I was done playing games a long time ago. You should have known better, Rosa. Despite being a full Fae, you still enjoy playing. What you regard as fun isn’t always fun for others.”
She laughed. “A girl has to try.”
“This is Rosalinda, the owner of theHowling At Your Peril,” Elvey said. “Rosa, meet Daisy and Iokul, my friends.”
Rosalinda sniffed, her nostrils flaring.
“Can you not be so obvious, Rosa?” Elvey sighed.
“Princess Daisy Danaenyth?” Rosalinda said, tears suddenly moistening her eyes. “It’s truly you! We’ve been waiting for you for a very long time.”
Elvey had told me that he and others had been looking for me. When I’d demanded to know who they were, he hadn’t given me any names but had only said,“The ones who will be loyal to you to death.”
Rosalinda’s burst of emotion hinted that she was one of them. She knew who I was without Elvey telling her.
“Are you Fae, Rosalinda?” I asked just to confirm.
“She’s a pure-blooded Fae,” Iokul said in a low voice.
“And far less powerful than the two half-bred Fae here,” Rosalinda said.
She meant Elvey and me.
I’d gleaned a conversation between the demon captain and Elvey. Full-blooded Fae often looked down at half-bred, just as old, pure-blooded dragons often sneered at half-breeds or humans who had less dragon blood in their veins.
“I’ve been stationed in the human world for ages,” she continued. Her voice sounded forlorn, as if she missed a home that she couldn’t return to.
“We have Fae blending into the human society in every nation,” Elvey said, glancing at Iokul, who still looked paler than usual, before returning his gaze to Rosalinda. “Will you be a dear and bring us what you have today, Rosa? Iokul needs meat, and our Daisy needs a drink for what I’m going to tell her.”
More bad news? I chinned up, though my heart sank.
“I’ll be a dear.” Rosalinda chuckled. “Lord Elvey’s . . . friends are always mine as well. What kind of drink do you prefer, Daisy?”
I had no idea why, all of a sudden, she dropped our titles and acted like she’d never known who we were. But my icy demeanor had melted toward her. “Uh, what do you have?”
I couldn’t even name a drink. How much life and fun had I missed out on?
“Cocktails are most popular here. The house special is Sinful Breeze,” Rosalinda said, still studying me. “Humans also like the local beer.”
“I’m not a human,” I said. “And dragons don’t favor booze too much.”
“We have fairy brew,” she said, a spark in her eyes. “No human can take it, but you’re half-Fae.”
“No fairy brew,” Iokul said firmly. “I don’t want my mate getting drunk, though I don’t mind carrying her home.”
