Dragons' Bride: Her Royal Dragon Pack by Alex Lidell

Author:Alex Lidell [Lidell, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

17. KIT

I definitely liked Quinton more in dragon form.

As if to further dig his barb into me, Quinton allows Corvus to pat his shoulder. The healer isn’t even pack.

“Let’s get the prince to his cabin,” Corvus says. “I will see to him there.”

I hope whatever the healer does hurts. A lot. The mix of hurt and anger swirls in my chest like a growing gale. Quinton had gone out of his way to wound me after shifting to his fae form, just as he’d gone out of his way to torment me after the night we spent together. It was becoming a theme. Stars, maybe that is the most infuriating part – that I’ve dropped my guard low enough to let the jabs take me by surprise and hurt me.

I’m a slave and Quinton is a prince. He is hardly the first to take pleasure in such things.

Still brimming with my righteous indignation, I turn my attention to the rest of the pack. Tavias and Cyril are helping Quinton toward the hatch, but Cyril spares me a look. “We will discuss what happened later,” he says in clipped tones that feel like being splashed with ice.

I’d honestly expected celebration and gratitude for helping the dragon. But the tension rolling off the males is anything but.

“Those were some… bold decisions there, turnip,” Hauck says behind me. “Even I’m seldom that reckless – and I heal a great deal faster than you do.”

“W-What are you talking about?” I ask.

Hauck snorts, though his attention is already being pulled away toward a repair crew asking for help. “Publically disregarding Cyril’s orders to do something that could have ended in disaster? It isn’t something I’d do lightly. Just saying. Excuse me.”

Suddenly alone, I look around the deck to see if anyone might voice a different opinion. Instead, I mark a shift in the crew. It’s the first time I’m without the princes hovering over me, and the sailors make little effort to keep their dislike in check. It is bad luck to have humans on a ship, they inform each other. I had to be the reason the runes on the Phoenix’s hull failed to protect her in the rift. They look forward to watching me get what’s coming.

A few even wager how many lashes I might get for my defiance. Whether I’ll pass out or scream louder than someone named Grevi once had. Whether the princes might strip me naked first.

Chest tight, I move out of the sailors’ way. The rift is behind us now, the purplish mist hanging above it like a deceptively pretty cloud. The rising wind whips the hair free of my braid and I gasp slightly at the potency of the new scents filling my lungs. Now that we’ve crossed into Lunos, everything around me seems sharper and more potent. The briney scent of the ocean, the creaking of the ship’s wet timber, the brilliance of the blue sky. I scratch my brand again, which now feels like it has ants crawling beneath its surface.

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