The Demon's Deception (Demons Unleashed Erotic Novellas) by Alder Lisa

Author:Alder, Lisa [Alder, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: demon romance
Publisher: Lisa Alder
Published: 2013-03-28T23:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Barbas caught Aine as she fell, limp and unconscious. She slumped over, the effort to belay the power blast from her father had drained her body of energy.

Gods, the king hadn't killed her, had he?

The king. He was still as a statue. Barbas had seen what had happened to Leraye. Seen the horrible aftermath of a body frozen in stasis.

The guards rushed forward to the king's side but their monarch was suspended in an awkward position, his face contorted in a rictus of rage, brows lowered and mouth open as he'd jammed his hands toward Barbas.

Barbas lifted Aine away from the cold stone floor and into his arms. He carried her to his cot and lay her down on the rough cotton sheets. He stroked her hair and murmured pleas to her insensate body.

Aine returned to her senses slowly. He knew the exact moment she realized that she'd sacrificed her father for her lover. The consequence of that decision would stay with her forever.

Barbas wrapped his arms around Aine's slight form. Her body shook with the aftermath of both the physical effort to repel the king's blast and, he guessed, the reality that she'd just disobeyed the king's edict. The king had wanted him as good as dead. Maybe the blast had been a test? The energy would kill a mere Human but if it froze Barbas then the king would have known that he was a Demon. Except with his half Fae blood he likely would have been frozen too.

Barbas pressed her closer, and savored the feel of her body against his. He was shaking too. Not from fear. Amazement threatened to overwhelm him. She had saved him.

Her tears dampened his shoulder as she trembled against him. She felt almost frail and weak in the hard wrap of his arms. The moon's full power shone through the iron bars on the window and reanimated his strength. Soon he would be able to break free from this prison. That reality was not as exhilarating as he would have thought. He couldn't seem to focus on escape. Right now he only thought to comfort Aine.

She clutched at Barbas' shoulders as if he were the only support in her crumbling world and her sole focus had narrowed down to his arms.

The Fae definitely had a spy in the Castle. And now that he knew what the king had discovered, he could confer with Gaap. There was no way that his message to Gaap was common knowledge. Only a select few could know. The identity of the traitor was in their grasp. Assuming he could get his ass out of the Fae Realm and back to the Demon Castle.

"What have you done?" Finn stalked toward them.

Aine placated. "I only meant to--"

"You are a traitor to the Fae Realm," Finn said harshly.

"No." Aine ripped herself from Barbas' arms and stood strong and proud. "I am now your ruler." She glanced at her father. "Unless we can figure out how to unfreeze him."

A chill whispered over Barbas.

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