Purity: A Kingdom of Hell Princes vs. Demigoddesses New Adult Fantasy (Divine Deities Book 2) by Rye Brewer

Author:Rye Brewer [Brewer, Rye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“Princess Riven, we just wanted to say how grateful we are to dance with you,” said a member of the corps, the redhead whose name I learned was Irene. “None of us have ever slept in a palace before, nor been treated with so much respect as mere mortals.”

“Well, you’ve all shown me that even mortals can dance like the gods,” I replied to her. “So, I am the one who is more grateful.”

Though I wasn’t used to having friends—my twin was the closest thing I ever got to such a thing—I was fond of my ten ballerinas. They were tough and hard-working, unflinching in the face of the pain of our art form. Although they were just regular mortals, inconsequential girls from small villages, I wanted them to like me. Their favor would do nothing to serve my purpose with Prince Finn, but having the trust of a corps of dancers might be useful in an unexpected way.

After all, Finn said himself that my performance was so good that it kept him from sleeping. It wasn’t a sentiment that I was willing to take lightly.

“Did you sleep well, Princess?” asked another dancer as she pinned the onyx headpiece into her tight bun. The ten of them shared a dressing room behind the stage, while I’d been given a private one of my own, but the show was scheduled to begin in thirty minutes, and I stopped by to ensure everyone was ready.

“Yes, I did,” I answered the tall brunette, whose name I was almost certain was Rita… or perhaps Zita. “I did have a very strange dream, though.”

After Finn left me in the hallway, I spent a few more minutes looking out the windows at the moon, wondering how the snake knew to lead me up there. It was like a creepy guardian angel, forcing me out of sleep so that I could seize the opportunity to be alone with the prince. But how did it know me? Why did it want to help me in the first place?

I thought about asking Finn about it during breakfast, but we became entrenched in a conversation about the merits of arts in improving one’s intellect—definitely not the kind of chatter I’d engage in with Nico—and I didn’t want to steer the topic away because it was going so well. He seemed happy to have someone to talk to for once, rather than my sister, who likely ate in scared silence every time they shared a meal.

Instead, I had to figure out a different way to determine why that snake appeared to me. My dancers were reverent and innocent enough, and they’d also been born and raised in the Underworld, so why not attempt to subtly prod an explanation out of them?

“A strange dream?” asked another brunette dancer, smoothing the fabric of her long satin gloves with firm concentration. “How so?”

“There was a snake in it,” I told them, aware of ten pairs of wide eyes turned in my direction. “It could talk.

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