Wicked Witch by Meg Xuemei X

Author:Meg Xuemei X [Xuemei X, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

21

The Witch

My heated blood iced over the second the guard went down on one knee in front of me and announced, “Dark Prince Desdemona has a message for you, which is for your ears only. He said you wouldn’t want to dismiss his envoy this time, because there was something you’d like to remember, and he hoped you could remember.”

The emphasis on “remember” hit my nerve. My throat ran dry. My magical markings indicated I’d promised an unspecified future date with the vampire prince to buy myself time to find the portal. I did not recall the details. I didn’t remember what Desdemona looked like or what he’d said to me. I hadn’t expected to be stranded on Pandemonium for so long.

The vampire was losing patience.

How could an immortal have no fucking patience?

Now he’d sent a messenger, hinting that he knew about my memory problem and would use it to blackmail me.

If my subjects realized the mistress they feared couldn’t remember a damn thing and couldn’t discern one day from the next, they’d rise against me.

I needed them to guard my tower while I searched for a way off this planet. I had no illusions of their loyalty. They served me because I was a better choice. It was either that or being food for the vampires and cannibals.

I’d been stalling for so long, and it had finally caught up with me, just like everything else had.

How had the Dark Prince found out my most veiled secret when no one else could have possibly known it?

Apart from the Angel’s ship and the ship Kaara told me had crashed yesterday, there hadn’t been any other crashes that indicated my enemies were on Pandemonium.

I could just dismiss the messenger and deny the Dark Prince’s accusation. But what if he had evidence?

I couldn’t allow him to plant doubts and dissensions in my guards’ heads. I’d have to find out what exactly Desdemona knew and how he’d learned my dark secrets.

Before I issued an order to the kneeling guard, Kaara moved toward me.

“Lady Fiammetta,” she said quietly, “I’ll personally bring the vampire messenger to the torture chamber in the old museum for you to interrogate.”

I snapped my head toward her, my eyes sharp and cold. Did she know about my amnesia? If she did, she could be the one who had deceived me. If she was the traitor, I would freeze her blood. But my markings and my instincts told me I could trust her. The mere idea of ending her made my heart ache.

Kaara gazed back at me, waiting. There wasn’t a hint of dishonesty in her compassionate, intelligent eyes, and my coldness couldn’t reduce the warmth in them.

But appearances could be deceiving.

Was she fooling me?

If she was the one who stabbed me in the back, she wouldn’t want me to interrogate the messenger. I might not have my memories, but I still had my common sense.

I nodded at Kaara. “Have the guards take the messenger to the torture chamber.” I paused. Had

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