The Royal Trials: Heir by Tate James

Author:Tate James [James, Tate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foxy Publishing
Published: 2019-09-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Hours after discovering my mother’s secret vault of treasures, I couldn't stop my mind from whirling. Jules had been moved into a new suite of rooms with Greenjoy—who'd gained a rapid promotion—so I was all alone in my room, tossing and turning in my bed.

There were so many unanswered questions surrounding my mother's murder. Why hadn't she alerted anyone if she'd known danger was coming? Why did she feel the need to hide all those artifacts and jewels? More importantly, and really the number one question plaguing my mind and driving sleep away... where the hell was Sal?

All these other gods and goddesses—Aana, Rayventh, Gewalt… whoever the fuck the red-loving creep was—had shown up from nowhere. One of them had mentioned that some protection I'd had had worn off and that they were no longer bound.

Barmzig had said their race existed on another realm, so the fact that they were all appearing now told me they suddenly had free access to our world again.

Because of the land’s magic being so unstable? Possibly.

"Ugh!" I screamed into the emptiness of my room and punched my pillow. "This is stupid." If there was one place in this whole palace that I might get answers, it was Ophelia's hidden vault.

Giving up on sleep, I dragged a thin robe over my nightgown and slipped out of my room.

The whole palace was quiet. According to Ty, the party in the main hall had finally died down after the natural rain had fallen earlier. Something about it had sobered everyone up, and they'd drifted back to their rooms or homes as if in a trance.

As a result, there was no one around to see me creeping silently through the dark halls and out into the gardens.

At some stage in the evening, the weather had taken a bitter turn, and I was trembling with cold as I hurried down the stone path toward the sanctuary. By the time I’d slipped inside, my toes were so freezing they hurt, and my nipples were harder than granite through the flimsy gauze of my sleepwear.

To my surprise, several lanterns were glowing inside, despite the fact that we'd turned them all off when we left before bed.

"Lee?" I called out, recognizing the blond head bent over the small table. "Hey, what are you doing here?"

At the sound of my voice, he looked up and smiled with genuine warmth.

"I slept all afternoon, remember?" he replied, beckoning me closer to him. "I thought I'd do some reading on this third trial, see what I could find that might help you."

He indicated to the book he'd been hunched over, and as I drifted closer I could see it was old—way older than anything I'd seen available in the palace library when we'd been there with Zan.

"Where did you get that?" I asked, leaning over his shoulder to peer at the book. "I thought there were no records of the third trial."

"I stole it from my father’s room," Lee admitted, and even with the dim lighting, I could see him blush.

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