Forbidden Queen Complete Series: Books 1-4 by Chick Dyan

Author:Chick, Dyan [Chick, Dyan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Illaria Publishing
Published: 2019-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

When the guards grabbed me, I didn't even resist. The fight was gone and for the first time since I arrived here, I felt defeated. I'd been able to pass into the Winter Court before. Why would it change now?

I kept my gaze down as the guards on either side of me guided me back to the road. I wasn't even sure how many of them there were. All I knew was that there wasn't much hope for me to escape them.

My feet dragged as I followed them. Ethan hadn't come for me. Nobody had come for me. Exhaustion seemed to be seeping into my bones as hope faded. Whatever these guards wanted from me, they were going to get it. My willpower felt like it had been stripped from me, leaving me an empty shell of someone who once had goals and hopes and dreams. Now, I was just a changeling who was at the mercy of this group of Fae.

"Hurry up," one of the guards said as he tugged on my arm.

I glanced up at him, but hardly even registered what he looked like. All the guards seemed to be blending into a blur of burgundy and gold. My vision felt like it was swimming with color and I was struggling to focus on anything around me.

"Ease up," someone said. "You're going to kill her at this rate. The Queen wants her alive."

The mention of the Queen sent a pang through me that cut through the hazy feeling. I stopped walking and turned to the guard on my right. "We're going to the Queen?"

His brow furrowed. "Where else would the Queen's guard take you?"

"Where are we?" I asked.

He shook his head and tugged my arm, forcing me forward.

Feeling more alert than I had since hitting the invisible wall, I looked around and noticed that we weren't headed for the road. We were trudging through the tall grass. Ahead, I saw a large black gate standing in the middle of the tall grass. Had that always been there or had it just appeared? There was nothing else around. I would have noticed a gate in the middle of a field.

As we drew nearer to the gate, some of the guards ran ahead and to my surprise, the gate began to open.

"Are we at the palace?" I asked, already knowing the answer. The invisible wall I'd encountered hadn't been an entry to the Winter Court, it was a barrier hiding the Queen's Palace. Cormac's insistence that we approach the palace and seek a formal invitation made a bit more sense now. I wasn't even sure how you'd find the entrance if you weren't invited.

As the guards half pushed me through the opening, I wondered if I'd been dropped here on purpose. If Tiana had done something to prevent Cormac from reaching this place, had he been able to send me along on his own?

The gates swung closed behind us with a clank and as soon as I heard the sound, the field we were standing in vanished.

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