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“Please don’t get up, Rosalinda,” I called. “Sorry I couldn’t come by earlier.”
“Rest, Rosa,” Elvey growled softly. “You don’t need to be all formal and that. You’re injured.”
“Oh, stop being a menace, El,” Rosalinda said.
They endeared each other. She was much closer to him than I ever was. They’d been friends, or more than friends, for centuries, and I could count the hours I had spent with him. I knew it was illogical to be jealous of their relationship and their familiarity with each other, but I was always emotional around Elvey.
“How often does one get a visit from the queen to both the Danaenyth dynasty and Sihde Realm?” Rosalinda asked.
I blinked. She’d accepted me as her queen already and so easily?
Elvey ushered me into the room, and Sybil immediately landed on Elvey’s arm, spreading her beautiful white-feathered wings to the full for him. Elvey stroked her head with affection. Henry went to rub against Elvey’s leg.
Really, my hound, too?
The only ones Elvey couldn’t charm were my mates.
I intended to ask Elvey how to break the blood bond between Tianna and him, but I didn’t want to breach the topic in front of Rosalinda, even though she probably knew everything already.
I chatted with Rosalinda while Elvey leaned against the backside of a tall chair, regarding me. Though I pretended not to notice him much, my self-awareness centered on him. Something inside me tethered me to him. The connection and attraction between us was so palpable that Rosalinda kept darting her gaze between us involuntarily. In the end, she yawned, excusing herself and pretending to fall asleep, insisting I stay.
It was just Elvey and I now, gazing at each other, with Sybil, Henry, and a “sleeping” patient as an audience.
“Hello,” he said with a smile, his eyes warm and seductive.
“Hello.”
And then we fell silent. It seemed a thousand words transpired between us when we looked at each other like this. We had no need for words.
He was my mate, my fourth mate, who should have been the first.
Did he know it? He’d hinted at it, but we’d never talked about it.
And he’d once asked me in a playful way if I had room for one more.
Sphinx’s riddle had spelled it for me that with four mates, I’d find a way home.
I could no longer deceive my heart.
Elvey hadn’t just helped me find a way back to the Dragon Realm; he’d helped me find a way with my dragon princes when he’d forced me to show my Fury forms in front of them. He’d said that they’d need to accept my both forms for the curse to fall off.
He waltzed into my world whenever I needed him the most and drifted away when the problem was solved and my mates’ warm chests surrounded me.
He kept giving, yet never asked anything back.
He never asked me for anything.
He didn’t even ask me to break the blood bond between him and his evil queen, which he wanted more than anything. And that blood slavery had been his curse for centuries.
He was one of the most powerful beings I knew, yet he had no freedom.
He never whined about it, either. Whenever he faced me and looked at me, he was all teasing smiles and harmless flirting.
He gave me sunshine while he hadn’t gotten any.
“Elvey,” I whispered, stalking toward him.
He straightened, his body tensing in anticipation, dark stars wheeling in his heated eyes.
