Dragon's Blood: a Reverse Harem Fantasy Romance (The Dragon's Gift Trilogy Book 2) by Jasmine Walt & May Sage

Author:Jasmine Walt & May Sage [Walt, Jasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dynamo Press
Published: 2017-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

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Dareena spent the next few days studying the elven books she’d taken from the library and practicing magic every second she had. Which turned out to be quite a lot, as she had nowhere special to be. Princess Basilla liked to stop in at lunch to check in on her, the servants brought Dareena her meals, and Mari, the maid, came every morning and night to dress and undress her, but aside from that, she saw no one. She half-expected Arolas to come back to her room and accost her, but the prince was nowhere to be found.

Likely bossing around his soldiers, she thought, and not without bitterness. Oh, if only Ryolas were still in charge! Dareena had never met the younger prince, but if Tariana was smitten with him he had to be a noble man. He never would have separated her from Alistair.

“My lady?” Mari knocked on the door, startling Dareena. The clock on the wall told her it was barely four, far too early for the maid to come. Hastily, she shoved the books beneath her pillows, then smoothed the bedspread.

“Come in!” she called, and Mari opened the door. “What are you doing here?”

Mari bustled in. “The royal family wishes you to dine with them tonight.”

Dareena’s eyes latched onto the shimmering teal dress hung over her maid’s arm—it wasn’t one of hers. Who had sent it?

“I’m to get you ready.”

Dareena’s palms grew sweaty at the idea of sitting down to a meal with her captors. “Is Prince Arolas back?” she asked, rising from the bed so Mari could help her out of her day dress.

“He is.” Mari hesitated. “You should try not to provoke him this time if you can help it, my lady. He was quite furious after your last…encounter.”

Dareena bit her lip. She remembered quite well how angry Arolas was after she’d slapped him and called him an insolent pig—he looked ready to strike her himself, and might have done so if Princess Basilla hadn’t come storming into the room, in a towering rage herself. The royal siblings had argued fiercely about Arolas’s decision to jail Alistair, and had taken the conversation out of Dareena’s room, to her mingled disappointment and relief. Basilla had come to her the next day and apologized for not being able to stop it—she had no power to challenge Arolas’s decisions, and he would not listen to her no matter how insistent her arguments.

Gods, would she be able to sit across the table from him and keep a pleasant smile on her face while he leered at her? She knew he wanted to bed her—apparently his hatred of dragons did not extend to her body, or perhaps it was a gesture of dominance. After all, if he could successfully bed the dragon king’s mate, that meant he was more powerful, didn’t it?

Please, a voice in her head sneered. Any one of my mates could crush him like the cockroach he is if not for this awful spell.

Dareena allowed her mind

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