Ruined Wings by Annie Anderson

Author:Annie Anderson [Anderson, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Idris

I'd never been so pissed off and turned on at the same time.

The woman at my left barely looked at me as we traversed the nearly pitch-black caverns underneath the castle. Her jaw set, her mind buzzed like a hive of bees, her racing thoughts needling my brain. I couldn’t hear all her thoughts, just the ones too loud for me to ignore, but it was safe to say my first in-person impression was not the best.

Vale did not give a single fuck that I was a king, didn’t care that I had ruled a kingdom for longer than she’d been alive, that I had more magic under my skin than my body could contain alone.

She still thought I was scum, and honestly, I couldn’t blame her.

In two hundred years, I had been helpless to watch as witch after witch died trying to break the curse that poisoned all of the magic in Credour. The same curse that hamstrung the dragons as a whole, that siphoned power from witches and vampires alike, that crushed shifters under its power.

It was my fault the curse was even a reality.

But under all my guilt, I seethed. White-hot jealousy raged under my genial smile and carefully crafted façade. Vale was supposed to be mine, and yet, it made perfect sense as far as curses went. The one woman who spoke to my soul, who was brave and smart and beautiful, wanted absolutely nothing to do with me and everything to do with the two men I counted as brothers.

Fighting over a woman was what got me cursed in the first place. Damn if it wasn’t a bitter pill to swallow watching history repeat itself.

And still, I could not get the images of her running full tilt into a dragon fight out of my head. Zero hesitation, she just raced into the fray, not realizing that she would be as good as dead should Rune decide it was so. And then she stood in front of my men, protecting them with her magic, putting herself in harm’s way to save their lives.

Never—not once—had a single Luxa earned the respect and favor of Rune, had him defend her as if she were precious. Other than a handful of witches, very few even survived Rune at all.

She was unlike any before her, but if I couldn’t convince her to give a shit about helping me, we would be dead in the water. Hell, I couldn’t even unclench my own jaw long enough to tell her not to worry about the council members we were set to meet or the mob outside the castle gates.

Maybe it was better not to lie to her.

There were still two more trials for her to overcome, and yet, the most perilous thing she would face would be the council we were hiking toward. Then again, with the way she put me in my place, the poor saps would likely either fall in love with her or plot her doom.

Unlike any other

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