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“I tried everything in order to break the blood bond to her, but failed for centuries,” Elvey said. “I could never reject her. I could never disobey her.”
“That’s not true,” Rosalinda said, sending a quick, cautious glance my way, as if she believed that there was a connection between Elvey and me.
Was it so palpable that even an outsider could tell? I constantly felt the strong pull between us. And when Elvey wasn’t around, I often felt like something was missing, yet I could still feel the thread between us pulsing intermittently.
I didn’t know what it was exactly, or why I acted this way toward Elvey, but I knew I didn’t want to hurt my mates’ feelings.
“You turned her down, Elvey,” Rosalinda said proudly. “You refused to warm her bed.”
“That was two centuries after I vowed I’d be no one’s whore,” Elvey said emotionlessly, as if something had died inside him.
Icy rage sliced at my heart and it filled with white-hot hatred. This was the first time I learned that the Fae bitch had tried to make Elvey her sex slave. She would pay for it.
I would never let her touch him again.
“I’ll have to follow her orders in her presence,” Elvey warned. “Her will is my command and my wish, as the blood bond goes.”
“Then you’ll never return to her,” I said fiercely. “If the vampire venom can thin the bond, we can use it as a temporary solution before we handle her. We’ll go back to Pandemonium to capture a few more vampires and bring them here for you.”
Elvey smiled at me, and that smile nearly broke my heart. He’d do anything for me but asked nothing in return.
“It’s only a one-time thing,” he said. “The venom is contagious. It nearly turned me. If my blood weren’t stronger, it would never purge the vampire venom.”
“We’ll figure out a way,” I said. “We will. We broke our curses, and we’ll break yours.” I glanced at Iokul’s mask. We hadn’t completely broken my mates’ curse.
Iokul reached over, grabbed my hand, and gave it a gentle squeeze. “How did you beat us and return earlier, Elvey?” he asked. “We traveled at warp speed.”
“I found a portal in the jungle,” Elvey said.
“Fiammetta the Wickedest Witch’s portal?” I asked.
“It didn’t completely close,” Elvey said. “I tweaked it. Phantom, who could shift the landscape, helped me stabilize it before it crashed. He liked you, Daisy, which is why he did me this one favor. I came through the portal and came back three days before you did.”
“Welcome back,” Rosalinda whispered.
She didn’t say welcome home. Elvey had no home and wouldn’t have one until the day he was free. And I’d make sure it happened.
Elvey grinned at her.
I didn’t like him smiling at other women, but there was no heat, no tease, and no flirt in that smile, unlike how he smiled at me.
“You can’t live in the palace yet, Daisy,” Elvey said, his smile gone. “I know you want to go home more than anything, but it’s not safe. The Dragon Realm will never be yours, nor will all six human cities, not until you can prove you actually own the Danaenyth dynasty.”
Elvey was always brutally honest with me, except for the things he couldn’t reveal, or if something involved himself.
“She doesn’t need to prove a thing,” Iokul snapped. “She’s the rightful heir to the throne. The witch consort is a fraud and a usurper.”
“The humans don’t think so,” Elvey said. “And they have great numbers. They’ve become the majority.”
I rubbed my temples. “I heard what they want. They want to put a human like them on the throne. They don’t want me, especially a half-dragon, half-Fae who has been absent for centuries. And I know so little about this era and its people.”
“You’ll pick it up,” Rosalinda said. “You’ll learn. You’ll adapt.”
“If I hadn’t seen for myself what the consort is,” I said, “and if she was indeed as good as the humans believe and was suitable to rule, I might have just let go of all the human cities.”
“It doesn’t matter what the humans want,” Iokul said. “The Danaenyth dynasty is yours.”
I sighed. “We’ve seen how the Humans Superior and First movement spread like a virus. If I take the realm back by force, there’ll be war.”
