Magical Curves by Virginia Nelson

Author:Virginia Nelson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, erotic, fantasy, rubenesque
Publisher: Evernight Publishing

Chapter Thirteen

Kayden headed down to the hall and met chaos. Old food still lay on the banquet table, smelling like soured wine and meat that had gone bad. Dogs, never usually allowed inside the castle, lay about…overlaying the aroma of the food with the pungent smell of wet animal. Men fell where they stood, some seeming to come awake at the sound of his footfalls and blinking in obvious drunken stupors.

“What in the hell?” He bellowed the words, hands on hips as he surveyed the mess. “Who can explain this?”

Near the fire pit, long gone out, his brother roused, naked and wrapped in women. “Kayden?”

“Kallicrates, what goes on here?”

Emily’s hand closed over his arm. A zing of awareness, an increase of his power, came from the touch, but he chose to ignore his soul mate in favor of considering his brother.

“You’re back?” Kalli sounded confused as he rubbed a hand over his face.

“I’m back,” he agreed. “You have one hour to clean up this disaster. There’s a wedding today.”

“Who’s getting married?”

His guards, looking ashamed, began to move. Maids shuffled into the room, obviously hiding nearby, but not daring to enter the room that had been filled with who only knew what debauchery, the night before.

“I am,” he announced and Emily’s nails bit into his arm.

“To whom?” Kalli finally managed to focus bloodshot eyes on him and they went wide.

“Emily, my soul mate.”

“She’s fucking here in daylight?” Kalli nearly screeched the words then cupped his own head with a pained expression.

“Clean up, brother. My bride and I shall wed before the sun sets this day.”

Spinning to leave the hall, he ignored the fact that Emily had to race to keep up.

“Was that supposed to be a proposal?” Her quietly hissed words sounded more than a little annoyed.

“We’re destined to wed.” That someone tried to block him from that destiny more than annoyed Kayden.

“Destiny schmestiny. You’re going to have to be a bit more romantic, princey poo.”

Using the annoying name her sister created, Emily won no points with Kayden with her words. “We will wed. There will be no more discussion about who will be king. I will rule and that fool downstairs will back down, once the discussion—”

“We seem to be suffering from a failure to communicate.” Emily slammed to a halt, and Kayden almost didn’t stop to turn and face her. There was much to be done. They could talk later. Women, his included, wasted too much time on words.

“We can talk later. First, the wedding. I need to check on my father. I shall send a seamstress to my rooms. You wait there for her. We’ll talk tonight.” Decided, he strode further down the hall, not bothering to look back.

Emily would obey. She always obeyed. They could talk it all out once he’d secured the kingdom. She would understand.

****

Daphne hated the feeling of traveling through dimensions worse than flying. She preferred to keep her feet firmly on the ground.

As she again felt solid floor under her feet, she concentrated on not throwing up.

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