On My Knees by Stone Ciana

Author:Stone, Ciana [Stone, Ciana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-26T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Some animals sense the oncoming of natural disasters, can smell the approach of rain and know a storm is on the way.

I have been called an animal or beast and perhaps in a sense I am, for I share some of those sensory traits. Like now. I can feel it coming – the trouble that will ensue when Layla makes her return known.

There will be questions and truths will be revealed that my kind are not ready to make known. The Queen has voiced her strong disapproval of my decision to accompany Layla to New York. She and other members of the Council feel I could deal a damaging blow to our integration efforts if I misstep or misspeak.

I do not disagree. Which begs the question, why do I find myself choosing to put the needs – no the desires of one person above the needs of many? Am I so vain that I believe my desire supersedes all else? That my need to give Layla what she thinks she wants is more important than the years of effort that have gone into this peace accord?

Or perhaps it is that I do not believe the accord will last. I sense fallaciousness and cozenage, pretty words that strive to cover deception. Humans, despite their protestations to the contrary, fear integration of our races for they do not see the possibility of equality.

They are right. We are not equal. My kind is powerful and possessed of great wealth. We could, quite literally eradicate humanity if we so chose.

Humans are smart enough to know that, and thus friendship between us will forever be tenuous at best. An unequal distribution of power always produces a relationship of dominance and subservience.

Perhaps we are meant to rule humanity and in many ways we have. From the shadows. Unseen control has been our way. It's a role we've played for a millennia, unbeknownst to them. We manipulate events, economies, and governments to our benefit. It is, however, the fact that they did not know their lives were being, at least in part, controlled by anything other than themselves that made our rule successful.

Now? Now I feel a war coming and I do not believe that the efforts of the Council can do anything to change that. They may delay the inevitable, but they will not stop it.

That, however, is something to mentally chew upon later. For now, I have a role to play in a small drama in the romance world that could have far more impact than the heroine of the play imagines.

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