To Catch a Prince by May Sage

Author:May Sage [Sage, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Madam's Books
Published: 2017-12-10T18:30:00+00:00

14

The Enchantress

The next day, well past morning as none of them awoke early, they met in a comfortable drawing room. There was her sister, her new husband, Demelza, Vincent, another male and a female who were introduced as Nathos and Saskia. Saskia, blonde, and perhaps as eerily beautiful as Aleria, looked like she played polo with severed heads for fun. Xandrie introduced her as one of her councilwomen.

Nathos, however, seemed bored and wise. Talia identified him as the elegant man her sister had accosted the previous evening. Dragons didn’t age after reaching their maturity, so it was hard to tell how old they could be normally, but Talia would have sworn that Nathos was an ancient.

She was curious, but too polite to raise the question. To her surprise, Aleria, generally the most well-mannered amongst them, pointblank asked, “How old are you?” She blushed as the man’s dark eyes focused on hers. “Apologies, I just…your eyes look different, particularly in the light of day.”

“Are you referring to my wrinkles, miss?” asked Nathos.

Talia couldn’t be sure, but it looked like he was joking; the rest of the party seemed downright shocked to see him crack a mischievous smile.

“I’m soon to celebrate my first millennium, my lady. But the wrinkles I owe to the foolishness of young people these days. They get up to all sorts of trouble and keep me up at night.”

There were no wrinkles to speak of anywhere on him, so perhaps the young people weren’t that foolish.

That made her think of a concerning detail, though. “How does this work?” she asked, biting her lip when every gaze turned to her. “You two, when Xandrie will live a few decades and Rhey, forever.”

Xandrie and her husband exchanged a glance. “I…I won’t,” said she. “I won’t just live a few decades. Not since I linked myself to Elza. But binding myself to a dragon would have been enough to extend my lifespan.”

Her eyes widened. Her sister was now immortal? Her mind couldn’t quite wrap around that concept.

The men, Demelza and Saskia, sat down to a game of cards, presumably to give the sisters some privacy. Then, Xandrie started to explain what had happened to her over the course of the last season.

Talia listened to her sister’s tale, amused, impressed, and terrified when she realized how close she’d been to losing her a time or two. Poisons, vile she-dragons, evil sorcerers.

Xandrie turned to Aleria, then. “You know, your support meant a great deal to me. That you would believe me when no one else would- I’ll never be able to repay that.”

Aleria sighed. “I’m sorry I’ve given you reasons to believe I wouldn’t trust your words,” she told her, measuring each word. “I know I’m not…a warm person. Not since he left.”

He. The only he her family talked of in such hushed tones. Their brother Damion, Aleria’s twin. It had been years since he’d disappeared. Aleria had taken it worse than any of them.

A grave atmosphere engulfed them now that Damion had been mentioned, and Talia knew it was her time to talk, if only to change the subject.

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