Shifter (Wicked Woods #6) by Kailin Gow

Author:Kailin Gow [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: theEDGEbooks.com, in Imprint of Sparklesoup Inc.
Published: 2012-10-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

They went down into the palace, rushing off about the tasks they needed to perform before the creatures from Xylyx got there. The dragons had to fly out messages, Vigor had to start to get his army together… pretty soon, it seemed that everyone except Briony had some kind of job to do. She, meanwhile found herself left alone in the room she’d woken up in earlier, where another dress was laid out by a silk screen patterned with images of battle.

Briony went behind it to get changed, and she was halfway into her new dress when she heard footsteps on the other side of it.

“Briony?”

It was Josh. Briony wasn’t sure that there was much left to say to him. He’d manipulated her, using what he knew about Palisor to push her into a position that would give him more power.

“What do you want, Josh?” And more to the point, what did he want while she was still trying to lace up a dress that fastened at the back, meaning that no one without a servant at hand would ever be able to get into it? Who had these dresses been designed for? Princesses, probably.

“Actually, I wanted to apologize,” Josh said. “I know that I’ve put you in a difficult position, and that you still aren’t certain about marrying me. I know I’m not what you want.”

“You could say that,” Briony said. He wasn’t who she wanted, at least.

“That’s how fate works sometimes though,” Josh said. “You’ll have to make a decision soon, Briony. There isn’t any time to waste.” He came up behind Briony and began helping her with the lacing, his skilled fingers quickly figuring out how it worked. He leaned in behind her, his warm breath tickling her ear, “We’d make quite a team when we’re married, wouldn’t we?” His hands found its way to her waist and he slipped his arms around her, bringing her to his chest where he held her against his lean taunt body. Brioy could feel the heat and desire radiating from him. “You smell so good, Briony,” he whispered. “So beautiful and dignified. You’re born to be my queen.”

So he wasn’t just there to apologize. Or maybe he was, but even while he did something like that, Josh couldn’t stop himself from trying to manipulate things. That thought made something flick over in Briony, and she made a decision. The decision she suspected she’d always known she’d make.

“I’m not marrying you, Josh.”

“What?” Josh sounded genuinely surprised by that, like he really couldn’t believe that she would do anything other than marry him. “But you have to…”

“No, I don’t,” Briony said, cutting him off. “The monsters from Xylyx don’t change anything. The gates don’t change anything. My father pushed the monsters back into the chasm before, without your werewolves. If he did it, then I can do it.”

“I think you’ll regret that,” Josh said.

Briony sighed. “Get out, Josh.”

She heard Josh go, but she wasn’t thinking of him by then. He wasn’t important enough to think about.

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