Kingdom of the Two Moons by Alexandra Thomashoff

Author:Alexandra Thomashoff [Thomashoff, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Last Unicorn Press
Published: 2025-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

36

Melody

“Is that another threat?”

“I do not need to resort to threats,” Caryan answers too calmly, his eyes never leaving mine as he gets up. I can see him frown, not at me, but like he heard something. He briefly glances away, as if something has caught his attention.

“May I go?” I ask quietly, slowly sliding off the stool.

Caryan’s eyes dart back to me, refocused with new intensity. “I’m afraid you can’t.”

A shiver runs between my shoulder blades, and I stop dead in motion. For a moment, we look at each other, his eyes flickering with something unspoken.

Finally, he says, “I have to see about something. You’ll remain here until I return.”

My heart pounds at what that means. What that might imply. “No! Wait!”

He stops in his tracks, turning his face half to me, offering me his profile.

“Do not—please don’t lock me in.” The words tumble out of me, more desperate than I wish. “Please let me at least go to my room.”

“I cannot, after what happened.”

“I won’t run away again.” For now. Not tonight.

He retorts in a way that tells me he knows too well what I’m thinking, “I’ve not yet found who’s behind the incident. Until then, you’ll remain either in my presence or in one of the high lords’s.”

I startle at that. “So I’m downgraded from slave to prisoner?” I can’t help it, the scorn in my voice. Fuck that he just saved me. Fuck that I almost died. Fuck that I’m so drained and tired I can barely keep standing.

“As I said, it’s for your protection,” he answers coolly.

“Why am I so important that you seal the whole Fortress for me?” I ask his back, because he’s already turned away.

He pauses again, annoyance shining too clearly in his aura. I don’t care. “Do not flatter yourself. Maybe it’s not only for you,” he throws over a shoulder.

“No? But it must mean something that you, as the king, come to save a runaway slave,” I bite back. Pushing him. “Sealing the whole Fortress. Interrogating people.”

He turns to me fully then, and I wish he wouldn’t look as frightening as he did in the desert. To hell, or well, hells with it.

“I know I’m the last silver elf.”

His eyes gutter, shadows twirling from his shoulders and slowly coming for me. I realize he’s still furious, however he just seemed.

I don’t back off. I take a step towards him. “That’s why the Nefarians want me dead. Badly enough to kill themselves. So, what is it I can do other than reading old languages?”

“Such a familiar tone,” he purrs, but his eyes darken further at what I just revealed.

“I deserve to know, my king.” Damn me, the last word does sound like an insult.

His fangs flash, but he finally says, “I don’t yet know the full scope of what you can do. Yet breaking my wards as easily as tearing through a veil spun of sea silk seems to be yet another of your talents.”

“And others can’t do that?” I ask, surprised at his confession.

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