Evil Twin by Kati Wilde

Author:Kati Wilde [Wilde, Kati]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-30T18:30:00+00:00

“Did you go alone?” he asked her later, when they were in their cabin and she was wrapped up in his arms with her back against his chest. His cock was half hard, but no thought of fucking did he have now. Not after the hours in the carriage. She was still too sore. Better that he wait for a week or more.

And she still believed he wanted Sapphira.

“Where?” she answered sleepily.

“Crolum. Before. Did you go alone?”

“I did.”

“To a kingdom plagued by undying beasts.” Impotent fear roughened his voice.

“They’d already killed everyone. There was nothing left to eat, so they’d abandoned the city, too. There was no threat to me.”

“Unless the spell that changed the first beast in that healer’s square also changed you when you went there.”

“It obviously did not. Stop criticizing me.”

“I’m not criticizing.” Though the harshness of his voice likely sounded as if he was. “I’m admiring you and your courage. Despite the danger, you went.”

She stiffened slightly, as if deciding whether to believe him. Finally she said, “I’m evil and cursed. When you’re the worst of all things, you do not fear much else. So I didn’t need courage.”

“Liar.”

Her glare burned through the dark.

He smiled against her hair. “If you had kissed me at our wedding and left me there, would you have still journeyed to Crolum as queen?”

“Yes.”

“Alone?”

“Probably. I don’t like people.”

“You seem to get along with our warriors.”

She shrugged. “Maybe I get along with people who aren’t related to me—or who aren’t assigned to guard me and keep me locked in chambers that I’d rather not be locked in. Also if they feel they owe me their life, I’m vain enough to enjoy being a hero.”

“I thought you didn’t care what people thought of you.”

“I don’t.” She paused. “But apparently, I’m not opposed to people pledging their loyalty and their lives to me.”

“As I have. I pledge everything to you.”

“Don’t ask the same of me.”

He knew why. “Because you fear loving anyone. Or trusting anyone.”

“It’s not because I’m afraid. It’s because I’m not a fool.”

“Are you not?”

“No.”

“I am.”

She said nothing to that, but moved restlessly before scratching her cheek with their bound hands. He would be sorry when they removed the ribbon at dawn.

Finally she broke the silence again. “What is it like, being the good twin?”

“The good twin?”

“Respected and admired.”

“You think I am the good twin?”

“You clearly are.”

“I’m not.” He began laughing. “I’m violent and vindictive and greedy. On her deathbed, my mother begged me never to kill my brother. She made me vow not to.”

“On her deathbed? But the queen died twenty-five years past.”

“She did.”

“You would have been…five? She made you vow not to kill him at five years of age?”

“Because she knew I was the dangerous, violent twin.”

“So? Dangerous is good when you use it to protect those under your care. And you are everything that is good and kind and brave.”

His roar of laughter shook the whole bed. “No,” he managed to choke out after a minute.

“Yes.” Her insistent reply swelled his heart.

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