Reign of Embers: A Rejected Mates Romance (Fall Mountain Shifters Book 7) by G. Bailey

Author:G. Bailey [Bailey, G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Midnight Publishing Limited
Published: 2022-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Seven

I’ve never been a fan of dresses, but today...today is an exception. The red dress I’m wearing is nothing short of something a princess would wear in a fairy-tale story, and yet I feel strange without my usual daggers clipped to my thighs. I have to admit, despite the fact I would much prefer to be wearing leggings and a shirt, this really is beautiful. The top half is incredibly detailed and pushes up my chest with the deep, blood red corset. The skirt has many layers, spread around me, and I run my finger up the silver leaves that make lines down the dress until wrapping around my waist and travelling up the corset at my sides. I stare at myself in the mirror, noting every inch of my skin that is shown off in the dress, and my black markings for the world to see. My hair is pulled up into a bun, showing off all my upper back, the ends curled and twisted, and it’s very appealing.

Long black lines highlight my eyes, and my dark red lipstick matches my dress, and it goes well against my pale skin and dark hair.

Glancing down, I look at the small table by the mirror, the crown resting on it. I chose it yesterday when Reine and I were given the keys to the treasury by a grumpy Draycian, who left us alone with vague instructions on how to find the room. I figured he was grumpy about the many, many shifters in the castle, rushing around to get everything ready for the celebration. It took us two hours to find the right room, and by that point, both Reine and I were very annoyed. Reine looked ready to murder Dray, and I wasn’t going to stop her.

Treasury is a bit of an understatement for the room. It’s gigantic and filled with treasures of every kind, most I couldn’t even imagine. Many of the corridors that spun off the main room called to me, and I could almost hear the whisper of voices. We found a room for the crowns and nothing else but the daises they were on first. Seven beautiful tiaras of all different shapes and colours rested next to eight different types of crowns, and three much smaller crowns that looked like they should belong to a child.

The tiara I chose was the one that caught my eye from the entire bunch, even if they were all very beautiful. It looks like a frozen flame until the light catches the large red ruby in the middle. Two smaller ones rest at the side of the large diamond-shaped ruby, all of them held together in a cast of thin gold. I pick it up and slide it into my hair, moving it into place and messing for a minute until it looks right.

For the first time since being mated, the reality that I’m their queen is sinking in. I catch a glimpse of the Wolven dragon mark on my arm, and my proud smile quickly fades.

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