A Court of Greed and Excess: A steamy enemies-to-lovers fae romance (Royal Fae of Arathay Book 1) by Zara Dusk

Author:Zara Dusk [Dusk, Zara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2023-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Ronan

The Shadow Walker threat was real.

The shifter communities were working together—a miracle in itself—because they seemed to be targeted first. A squad was deployed every morning to find any victims and “put them down.” That meant salting and burning the bodies so they stopped walking around.

Entire families were wiped out in a single evening, and the rumors were beginning to extend beyond the shifter community into the broader fae population.

Neela still didn’t believe it, so I’d stationed shifts of guards to watch over her every night. They were under strict orders to keep her safe but follow from a distance and keep out of her way. After one guard told me he followed her while she ran in circles in the Sensory Quarter, I even instructed them not to report what she did to maintain her privacy.

That was the hardest command to issue.

With one simple question, I could find out exactly where she was and what she did, but I resisted.

I took over from the early morning shift and knocked on the front door at the Rose Palace.

Liz greeted me with a scowl that said I’d woken her and a cup of tea that said she forgave me. After turning up yesterday with Neela in my arms, her mouth dripping in blood, I guessed I’d earned some brownie points with the fierce green-haired fae.

I sipped the tea in the kitchen. “Don’t you have any other staff? A royal house needs more than one…Wait, what are you?”

“A royal companion,” she said and dipped a sardonic curtsy.

Neela spoke from behind me, and I jumped. She’d somehow managed to sneak up on me; perhaps her fae abilities were returning. She’d been away from human technology for a week, so the effects would soon wear off.

“We don’t all have bucketloads of gold to shower over the common people, so they perform services for us,” she said snidely, then accepted a cup of tea from Liz with a very regal air.

I shared a look with Liz, who squirmed. “Er…actually, you do.”

Neela spluttered hot tea all over the black-and-white checkerboard floor. “What?”

“Of course you do,” I scoffed. “You’re the heir to House Flora. The sole surviving heir. You control the entire fortune.”

I could watch the tomcat’s lack of composure all day. Her face wriggled and writhed with all the emotions, and her whole body radiated joy. I’d never seen somebody so excited to learn they had money, but I supposed that was because of my upbringing.

What did the tomcat call me? An entitled brat. That sounded about right.

I waited patiently for her to have breakfast, a single piece of toast and a strong coffee to wash down her tea, then I blurted out my plan. “I have something to show you. Please, will you come with me? We have the day off classes, and I promise I’ll make it worth your while.”

I’d planned a surprise for her and had initially wanted to wait until it was finished to show her, but I couldn’t. After Dion almost

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